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A REASONABLE WORD. 

" A Woman's Rights Convention is in session in New York. A collection 
of "women arguing for political rights, and for the privileges usually conceded 
only to the other sex, is one of the easiest things in the world to make fun 
of. There is no end to the smart speeches and the witty remarks that may 
be made on the subject. But when we seriously attempt to show that a 
woman who pays taxes ought not to have a voice in the manner in which 
the taxes are expended, that a woman whose property and liberty and per- 
son are controlled by the laws, should have no voice in framing those laws, 
it is not so easy. If women are fit to rule in monarchies, it is difficult to 
say why they are not qualified to vote in a republic ; nor can there be great- 
er indelicacy in a woman going up to the ballot box, than there is in a woman 
opening a legislature or issuing orders to an army. 

We do not say that women ought to vote ; but we say that it is a great 
deal easier to laugh down the idea than to argue; it down. Moreover, there 
are a great many things besides voting that are confined to men, and that 
women can do quite as well, or even better. There are many employments 
which ought to be opened to women, there are many ways in which women 
can be made to contribute more largely to their own independence and com- 
fort, and to the general good of society. All well directed plans to this end 
should receive the support of thinking men. The danger is that conventions 
of this kind are apt to overlook the present and attainable good, in their 
efforts for results which are of less certain value and far less practieable."-^- 
Proyidence Journal, Edited by Ex- Gov. Anthony. 



J3ENRX J. ROWLAND, FRINTEK, WOllCESTER, MASS. 



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THE HISTORY OF WOMAN, 

IK" THREE PICTURES. 

I. HINDOO LAWS. 2000 B. C. 

" A man, both day and night, must keep his wife so much in subjection, 
that she by no means be mistress of her own actions. If the wife have her 
own free-will, notwithstanding she be of a superior caste, she will behave 
amiss.-" 

" The Creator formed woman for this purpose, that man might have sexual 
intercourse with her, and that children might be born from thence." 

" A woman shall never go out of the house without the consent of her hus- 
band, ° ° ° ° and shall act according to the orders of her husband, 
and shall pay a proper respect to the Deity, her husband's father, the spir- 
itual guide and the guests ; and shall not eat until she has served them with 
victuals (if it is physic, she may take it before they eat ;) a woman also 
shall never go to a stranger's house, and shall not stand at the door, and 
must never look out of a window." 

" If a woman, following her own inclinations, goes whithersoever she 
choose, and does not regard the words of her master, such a woman shall be 
turned away." 

"If a man goes on a journey, his wife shall not divert herself by play, 
nor shall see any public show, nor shall laugh, nor shall dress herself with 
jewels and fine clothes, nor shall see dancing, nor hear music, nor shall sit 
in the window, nor shall ride out, nor shall behold anything choice or rare, 
but shall fasten well the house door and remain private ; and shall not eat 
any dainty victuals, and shall not view herself in a mirror ; she shall never 
exercise herself in any such agreeable employment, during the absence of 
her husband." 

" It is proper for every woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself 
in the fire, with his corpse." 

II. ANGLO-SAXON LAWS. 1848. 

[It will be seen that the following laws scarcely vary at all, in principle, from the pre- 
ceding.] 

" By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is, the 
very being or existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least 
is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, 
protection and covert, she performs everything ; and is therefore called in 



4 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

our Law-French'a feme-covert, is said to be covert-baron or under the protection 
and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord ; and her condition during 
her marriage is called her coverture. Upon this principle, of an union of 
person in husband and wife, depend almost all the legal rights, duties and 
disabilities that either of them acquire by the marriage." 1 Blackstone 
Com. 356. 

" The husband also, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correc- 
tion. For, as he is to answer for her misbehavior, the law thought it rea- 
sonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her by domestic chas- 
tisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his ap- 
prentices or children. But this power of correction was confined within 
reasonable bounds, and the husband was prohibited from using any violence 
to his wife, aliter quam ad virum, ex causa regiminis et castigalionis uxoris suae 
licite et rationabiliter pertinet, [except as lawfully and reasonably belongs to a 
husband, for the sake of governing and disciplining his wife.] The civil 
law gave the husband the same, or a larger authority over his wife ; allow- 
ing him for some misdemeanors, flagellis et Fustibus acriter verberare uxorem, [to 
beat his wife severely with whips and cudgels ;] for others only modicam 
castigationem adhibere, [to administer moderate chastisement.] But with us, 
in the politer reign of Charles II, this power of correction began to be doubt- 
ed, and a wife may now have security of peace against the husband, or, in 
return, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower rank of people, who were 
always fond of the old common law, still claim and exact their ancient priv- 
ilege, and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of 
her liberty, in case of any gross misbehavior." 1 Blackstone, 366. 

" The legal effects of marriage are generally deducible from the principle 
of the common law by which the husband and wife are regarded as one per- 
son, and her legal existence and authority are in a degree lost or suspended 
during the continuance of the matrimonial union." 2 Kent's Comm. on Am. 
Law, 129. 

" Even now, in countries of the most polished habits, a considerable lati- 
tude is allowed to marital coercion. In England the husband has the right 
of imposing such corporal restraints as he may deem necessary, for securing to 
himself the fulfilment of the obligations imposed on the wife by virtue of 
the marriage contract. He may, in the plenitude of his power, adopt every 
act of physical coercion which does not endanger the life or health of the 
wife, or render cohabitation unsafe." Petersdorff s Abridgement, note. 

*• The husband hath by law, power and dominion over his wife, and may 
keep her by force within the bounds of duty, and may beat her, but not in a vio- 
lent or cruel manner." Bacon's Abridgement, title " Baron and Feme," B. 9. 

" The wife is only the servant of her husband." Baron Alderson. (Wharton's 
Laws relating to the Women of England, p. 163.) 

" It is probably not generally known, that whenever a woman has accept- 
ed an offer of marriage, all she has or expects to have, becomes virtually 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 5 

the property of the man thus accepted as a husband ; and no gift or deed 
executed by her between the period of acceptance and the marriage is held 
to be valid ; for were she permitted to give away or otherwise settle her 
property, he might be disappointed in the wealth he looked to in making 
the offer. Roper, Law of Husband and Wife, Book I. c. xiii. 

" A lady whose husband had been unsuccessful in business, established 
herself as a milliner in Manchester. After some years of toil, she realized 
sufficient for the family to live upon comfortably ; the husband having done 
nothing meanwhile. They lived for a time in easy circumstances, after she 
gave up business, and then the husband died, bequeathing all his wife's earn- 
ings to his own illegitimate children. At the age of sixty-two, she was compelled, 
in order to gain her bread, to return to business." Westminster Review, 
Oct. 1856. 

Mr. Justice Coleridge's judgment " in re Cochrane." — The facts were 
briefly these. A writ of habeas corpus had been granted to the wife, who, 
having been brought into the pcwer of the husband by stratagem, had since 
that time been kept in confinement by him. By the return to the writ, it 
appeared that the parties had lived together for about three years after their 
marriage, on terms of apparent affection, and had two children ; that in 
May, 1836, Mrs. Cochrane withdrew herself and offspring from his house 
and protection, and had resided away from him against his will, for nearly 
four years. While absent from her husband, Mrs. Cochrane had always re- 
sided with her mother, nor was there the slightest imputation on her honor. 
In ordering her to be restored to her husband, the learned Judge, after stat- 
ing the question to be whether by the common law, the husband, in order to 
prevent his wife from eloping, has a right to confine her in his own dwelling 
house, and restrain her from liberty for an indefinite time, using no cruelty nor 
imposing any hardship or unnecessary restraint on his part, and on hers 
there "being no reason from her past conduct to apprehend that she will 
avail herself of her absence from his control to injure either his honor or his 
property, stated ; " that there could be no doubt of the general dominion which the 
law of England attributes to the husband over the wife." 8 Dowling's P. C. 3G0. 
Quoted in Westminster Review, Oct. 1866. 

III. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 1857. 

[It is obvious that the English common law, as above stated, "is scarcely a 
step beyond barbarism. Yet this law remained almost unaltered in the 
United States, as respects woman, till the year 1848— the year of the first 
local Woman's Rights Convention, — the first National one being held in 1850. 
Since then, every year has brought improvements, and even those who de- 
nounce the Woman's Rights movement, admit the value of these its results. 
Of the three following extracts, the first contains a summary of these changes, 
by Lucy Stone, and the two others are extracts from Legislative Reports, 
showing the highest points to which the tide has risen.] 



6 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

Results op the Woman's Rights Agitation. [From a Speech by Lucy 
Stone.) "It is our Seventh. Annual National Woman's Rights Convention. 
Our first effort was made in a small room in Boston, where a few women 
were gathered, who had learned woman's rights by woman's wrongs. There 
had been only one meeting in Ohio, and one in New York. The laws were 
yet against us, custom was against us, prejudice was against us, and more 
than all, women were against us. We were strong only " in the might of 
our right " — and, now, when this seventh year has brought us together 
again, we can say as did a laborer in the Republican party, though all is 
not gained, " we are without a wound in oar faith, without a wound in our 
hope, and stronger than when we began." We have indeed reason to thank 
God and take courage. Never before has any reformatory movement gained 
so much in so short a time. Looking over the past seven years, it seems al- 
most a miracle that so much has been wrought, which is traceable directly 
to our efforts. When we began, the statute books were covered with laws 
against women, which an eminent jurist (Judge Walker) said would be a 
disgrace to the statute books of any heathen nation. 

Now almost every Northern State has more or less modified its laws. The 
Legislature of Maine, after having granted nearly all other property rights 
to wives, found a bill before it, asking that a wife should be entitled to what 
she earns, but a certain member grew fearful that wives would bring in 
bills for their daily service, and by an eloquent appeal to pockets, the meas- 
ure was lost for the time, but that which has secured other rights will secure 
this. In Massachusetts, by the old laws, a wife owned nothing but the fee 
simple in her real estate. And even for that, she could not make a will 
without the written endorsement of her husband, permitting her to do so. 
Two years ago the law was so changed that she now holds the absolute right 
to her entire property, earnings included. Vermont, New Hampshire, and 
Rhode Island, have also very much amended their statutes. 

New York, the proud Empire State, has, fey the direct effort of this move- 
ment, secured to wives every property right except earnings. During two 
years a bill has been before the Legislature, which provides that if a hus- 
band be a drunkard, a profligate, or has abandoned his wife, she may have 
a right to her own earnings. It has not passed. Two hundred years hence 
that bill will be quoted as a proof of the barbarism of the times. Now it is 
a proof of progress. 

Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana have also very materially modified their laws. 
And Wisconsin— God bless these young States !— has granted almost all that 
has been asked except the right of suffrage. And even this, Senator Sholes, 
in an able and manly minority report on the subject, said " is only a ques- 
tion of time, and as sure to triumph as God is just." It proposed, that the 
convention which meets in two years to amend the constitution of the State 
should consider the subject. 

In Michigan, too, it has been moved that women should have a right to their 






THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 7 

own babies— which none of you, ladies, have here in New York. The motion 
caused much discussion in the Legislature, and it would probably have been 
carried had not a disciple of Brigham Young's, a Mormon member, defeated 
the bill. In Nebraska, everything is bright for our cause. Mrs. Bloomer is 
there, and she has circulated petitions, claiming for women the right to vote. 
A bill to that effect passed the House of Representatives, and was lost in the 
Senate, only because of the too early closing of the session. That act of jus- 
tice to woman will be gained in Nebraska first, and scores of women will 
go there that they may be made citizens, and be no longer subjects. 

In addition to these great legal changes, achieved so directly by this re- 
form, we find also that women have entered upon many new, and more re- 
munerative industrial pursuits ; thus being enabled to save themselves from 
the bitterness of dependent positions, or from lives of infamy. 

Our demand that Harvard and Yale Colleges should admit women, though 
not yielded, only waits for a little more time. And while they wait, numer- 
ous petty " female colleges '' have sprung into being, indicative of the justice 
of our claim that a college education should be granted to women. Not one 
of these female colleges (which are all second or third rate, and their whole 
course of study only about equal to what completes the sophomore year in 
our best colleges) meets the demand of the age, and so they will eventually 
perish. Oberlin and Antioch Colleges in Ohio, and the N. Y. Central College, 
admit women on terms nearly equal with men. 

Thus briefly I have mentioned some of the cheering results of our labors 
in this country. 

In England the claims of women arc making considerable progress. The 
most influential papers in London have urged the propriety of female phy- 
sicians. Also a petition was sent to Parliament last year, signed by the 
Brownings, the Howitts, Harriet Martineau, Mrs. Gaskell, and Mrs. Jame- 
son, asking for just such legal rights as we claim here. It was presented 
by Lord Brougham, and was respectfully received by Parliament. 

Thus at home and abroad this great question of human equality is taking 
root, and bearing its own legitimate fruit. Everything has helped us. 
Everything will help us. The ballot is not yet yielded; but it cannot be far 
off when, as in the last Presidential contest, women were urged to attend 
political meetings, and a woman's name was made one of the rallying cries 
of the party of progress. 

The enthusiasm which everywhere greeted the name of Jessie, was so far 
a recognition of a woman's right to participate in politics. Encouraged by 
the success of these seven years of effort, let us continue with unfailing 
fidelity to labor for the practical recognition of the great truth, that all hu- 
man rights inhere in each human being. 

° Kentucky however haH actually granted tho right of Buflrnge to widows, at the <i OtlOD 
for School trustees. 

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8 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

Report of the Select Committee of the Ohio Senate, on giving the 
eights of suffrage to females. 

The following petition, numerously signed "by both men and women, citi- 
zens of this State, was, at the first session of this Legislature, referred to 
the undersigned select committee. 

" Whereas, the women of the State of Ohio are disfranchised by the 
constitution solely on account of their sex. 

" We do, respectfully, demand for them the right of suffrage, a right 
which involves all other rights of citizenship, and one that cannot, justly, 
be withheld ; as the following admitted principles of government show : 

" First. ' All men are born free and equal/ 

" Second. ' Government derives its just power from the consent of the 
governed.' 

" Third. ' Taxation and representation are inseparable/ 

" We, the undersigned, therefore, petition your honorable body to take 
the necessary steps for a revision of the constitution, so that all citizens 
may enjoy equal political rights." 

Your committee have given the subject referred to them, a careful exam- 
ination, and now report : 

Your committee believe that the prayer of the petitioners ought to be 
granted. Our opinion is based both upon grounds of principle and expedi- 
ency, which we will endeavor to present as briefly, as is consistent with a 
due consideration of this subject. 

The founders of this republic, claimed and asserted with great emphasis, 
the essential equality of human rights, as a self-evident truth. They 
scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled 
aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude. 

They were equally explicit in their claim, that " taxation and representa- 
tion, are inseparable." 

The House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 1764, declared, " That 
the imposition of duties and taxes, by the Parliament of Great Britain 
upon a people, not represented in the House of Commons, is absolutely irre- 
concilable with their rights." A pamphlet entitled " The Rights of the 
British Colonies Asserted," was sent to the agent of the Colony in England, 
to show him the state of the public mind, and along with it an energetic 
letter. " The silence of the province," said this letter, alluding to the 
suggestion of the agent, that he had taken silence for consent, " should 
have been imputed to any cause,— even to despair,— rather than be con- 
strued into a tacit cession of their rights, or the acknowledgment of a ri^ht 
in the Parliament of Great Britain, to impose duties and taxes on a people 
who are not represented in the House of Commons." " If we are not repre- 
sented, we are slaves /" 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTSALM AX AC. 9 

Some of England's ablest jurists acknowledge the truth, of this doctrine. 
Justice Pritt said, " My position is this — taxation and representation are 
inseparable. The position is founded in the law of nature. It is more ; 
it is itself an eternal law of nature." In defence of this doctrine, they 
waged a seven years war ; and yet, when they had wrung from the grasp 
of Great Britain the colonies she would not govern upon this principle, and 
undertook to organize them according to their favorite theory, most of the 
colonies, by a single stroke of the pen, cut off one half of the people from 
any representation in the government which claimed their obedience to its 
laws, the right to tax them for its support, and the right to punish them 
for disobedience. 

To declare that a voice in the government is the right of all, and then 
give it only to a pari — and that the part to which the claimant himself 
belongs, — is to renounce even the appearance of principle. As ought to 
have been foreseen, the class of persons thus cut off from the means of 
self-protection, have become victims of unequal and oppressive legislation, 
which runs through our whole code. We first bind the hands, by the 
organic law, and then proceed with deliberate safety, by the statute, to 
sroil the goods of the victim. ° ° ° a ° 

The objection urged against female suffrage with the greatest confidence, 
and by the greatest number, is, that such a right is incompatible with the 
refinement and delicacy of the sex. That it would make them harsh and 
disputative, like male voters. This objection loses most, if not all of its 
force, when it is compared with the well established usages of society, as 
relates to woman. She already fills places and discharges duties with the 
approbation of most men, which are, to say the least, quite as dangerous 
to her refinement and retiring modesty, as the act of voting, or even hold- 
ing office, would be. In our political campaigns, all parties are anxious to 
secure the co operation of women. They are urged to attend our political 
meetings, and even in our mass meetings, when whole acres of men are 
assembled, they are importunately urged to take a conspicuous part, some- 
times as the representatives of the several States, and sometimes as the 
donors of banners and flags, accompanied with patriotic speeches by the 
fair donors. And in great moral questions, such as temperance, for exam- 
ple, in the right disposition of which woman is more interested than man ; 
she often discharges a large amount of the labor of the campaign ; but, 
yet, when it comes to the crowning act of voting, she must stand aside — 
delicacy forbids— that is too masculine, too public, too exposing, though it 
could be done, in most cases, with as little difficulty and exposure as a 
letter can be taken out or put in the post office. 

But, with all our dainty notions of female proprieties, women are, by 
common consent, dragged into court as witnesses, and subjected to the 
most scrutinizing and often indelicate examinations and questions, if 
either party imagines he can gain a sixpence, or dull the edge of a criminal 
prosecution, by her testimony. 



10 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

The interest, convenience, and prejudices of men, and not any true regard 
for the delicacy of the sex, seem to be the standard by which woman's 
rights and duties are to be measured. 

It is prejudice, custom, long established usage, and not reason, which 
have demanded the sacrifice of woman's natural rights of self government; 
a relic of barbarism still lingering in all political, and nearly all religious 
organizations. Among the purely savage tribes, woman takes position as 
a domestic drudge — a mere beast of burden, whilst the sensual civilization 
of Asia regarded her more in the light of a domestic luxury, to be jeal- 
ously guarded from the profane sight of all men, but her husband. Both 
positions equally and widely remote from the noble one, God intended her 
to fill. 

In Persia and Turkey, women grossly offend the public taste if they 
suffer their faces to be seen in the streets. In the latter country they are 
prohibited bylaw, in common with "pigs, dogs, and other unclean animals," 
as the law styles them, from so much as entering their mosques. . 

Our ideas of the proper sphere, duties, and capabilities of woman do not 
differ from these so much in kind, as degree. They are all based upon the 
assumption that man has the right to decide what are the rights, to point 
out the duties, and to fix the boundaries of woman's sphere ; which, taking 
for true our cherished theory of government, to wit : the inalienability and 
equality of human rights, can hardly be characterized by a milder term than 
that of an impudent and oppressive usurpation. 

It is said woman's mental and moral organization is peculiar, differing 
widely from that of man. Ferhaps so. She must then have a peculiar 
fitness of qualification to judge what will be wise and just government for 
her. Let her be free to choose for herself, in the light of her peculiar or- 
ganization, to what she is best adapted. She is better qualified to judge of 
her proper sphere than man can be. She knows her own wants and capa- 
bilities. Let us leave her, as God created her, a free agent, accountable to 
him for any violation of the laws of her nature. He has mingled the sexes 
in the family relation ; they are associated on terms of equality in some 
churches. They are active working and voting members of literary and 
benevolent societies. They vote as share-holders in stock companies, and 
in countries where less is said about freedom, and equality, and represen- 
tation, they are often called to, and fill with distinguished ability, very 
important positions, and often discharge the highest political trusts known 
to their laws. 

AVhich of England's kings has shown more executive ability than Eliza- 
beth, or which has been more conscientious and discreet than .Anne and 
Victoria? Spain, too, had her Isabella, and France her Maid of Orleans, 
her Madame Roland, yes, and her Charlotte Corday. Austria and Hungary 
their Maria Theresa. Russia her Catherine ; and even the jealous Jewish 
Theocracy was judged forty years by a woman. It is too late, by thirty 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 11 

centuries, to put in the plea of her incompetency in political affairs. 
But it is objected that it would not do for a woman, particularly a married 
woman, to be allowed to vote. It might bring discord into the family if she 
differed from her husband. If this objection were worth any thing at all, 
it would lie with tenfold greater force against religious than political or- 
ganizations. No animosities are so bitter and implacable as those growing- 
out of religious disagreements ; yet we allow women to choose their reli- 
gious creeds, attend their favorite places of worship, and some of them 
take an equal part in the church business, and all this, though the husband 
is of another religion, or of no religion ; and no one this side of Turkey 
claims that the law should compel woman to have no religion, or adopt that 
of her husband. But, even if that objection were a good one, more than 
half the adult women of the State are unmarried. 

It is said, too, that as woman is not required to perform military duty, 
and work on the roads, she ought not to vote. None but " able-bodied " 
men, under a certain age, are required to do military duty, and the effect 
is practically the same in regard to the two days work on the roads, whilst 
women pay tax for military and road purposes, the same as men. A man's 
right to vote does not depend on his ability to perform physical labor ; why 
should a woman's ? By the exclusion of woman from her due influence and 
voice in the government, we lose that elevating and refining influence 
which she gives to religious, social and domestic life. Her presence at our 
political meetings, all agree, contributes greatly to their order, decorum and 
decency. Why should not the polls, also, be civilized by her presence ? 

Does not the morality of our politics demonstrate a great want of the two 
qualities so characteristic of woman, heart and conscience ? 

The female element which works such miracles of reform in the rude 
manners of men, in ail the departments of life where she has the freedom 
to go, is no where more needed than in our politics, or at the polls. 

We have endeavored to show that the constitutional prohibition of female 
suffrage is not only a violation of natural right, but equally at war with 
the fundamental principles of the government. Let us now look at the 
practical results of this organic wrong. After having taken away from 
woman the means of protecting her person and property, by the peaceable 
but powerful ballot, how have we discharged the self-imposed duty of legis- 
lating for her? By every principle of honor, or even ef common honesty, 
we are bound to see that her interests do not suffer in our hands. That, if 
we depart at all from the principle of strict equality, it should be in her 
favor. Let us see what are the facts. 

When a woman marries, she becomes almost annihilated in the eyes of 
the law, except as a subject of punishment. She loses the right to receive 
and control the wages of her own labor. If she be an administratrix, or 
executrix, she is counted as.dead, and another must be appointed. If she 
have children, they may be taken from her against her will, and placed in 
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12 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

the care of any one, no matter how unfit, whom the father may select. He 
may even give them away by will. 

" The personal property of the wife, such as money, goods, cattle, and 
other chattels, which she had in possession at the time of her marriage, in 
her own right, and not in the right of another, vest immediately in the 
husband, and he can dispose of them as he pleases. On his death, they go 
to his representatives, like the residue of his property. So, if any such 
goods or chattels come to her possession in her own right, after the mar- 
riage, they, in like manner, immediately vest in the husband." 

The real estate of the wife, such as houses and lands, is in nearly the 
same state of subjection to the husband's will. He is entitled to all the 
rents and profits, while they both live, and the husband can hold the estate 
during his life, even though the wife be dead. A woman may thus be 
stripped of every available cent she ever had in the world, and even see it 
squandered in ministering to the low appetite or passions of a drunken 
debauchee of a husband. And when, by economy and toil, she may have 
acquired the means of present subsistence, this, too, may be lawfully taken 
from her, and applied to the same base purpose. Even her family bible, 
the last gift of a dying mother, her only remaining comfort, can be lawfully 
taken and sold by the husband, to buy the means of intoxication. This 
very thing has been done. 

Can any one believe that laws, so wickedly one sided as these, were ever 
honestly designed for the equal benefit of woman with man ? Yet wives 
are said to have quite a sufficient representation in the government, through 
their husbands, to secure them protection. 

But the cruel inequality of the laws relating to woman as wife, are quite 
out-done by those relating to her as widow. It is these stricken and sorrow- 
ful victims, whom the law seems especially to have selected as its prey. Upon 
the death of the husband, the law takes possession of the whole of the 
estate. The smallest items of property must be turned out for valuation, 
to be handled by strangers. The clothes that the deceased had worn, the 
chair in which he sat, the bed on which he died, all these sacred memorials 
of the dead, must undergo the cold scrutiny of officers of the law. The 
widow is counted but as an alien, and an incumbrance on the estate, the 
bulk of which is designed for other hands. She is to have doled out to her, 
like a pauper, by paltry sixes, the furniture of her own kitchen. " One 
table, six chairs, six knives and forks, six plates, six tea cups and saucers, 
one sugar dish, one milk pail, one tea pot, and twelve spoons \" All this 
munificent provision, for, perhaps, a family of only a dozen persons. Think 
of it, ye widows, and learn to be grateful for man's provident care of you, 
in your hour of need ! ° ° ° ° <* <* 

How different in all these cases is the condition of the husband, upon 
the death of the wife. There is, then, no officious intermeddling of the law 
in his domestic affairs. His house, sad and desolate though it be, is still 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 13 

sacred and secure from the foot of unbidden guests. There is no legal 
" settlement " to eat up his estate. He is not told that " one equal third 
part" of all his lands and tenements shall be set apart for his use, daring 
his life time. He has all, everything, even his wife's bridal presents too are 
his. If the wife had lands in her own right, and if they have ever had a 
living child, he has a life estate in the whole of it ; not a beggarly ' third 
part.' 

Such is the result of man's government of woman, without her consent. 
Such is the protection he affords her. She now asks the means of protect- 
ing herself, by the same instrumentality which man considers so essential 
to his freedom and security, — representation, political equality — the eight 
of suffrage. The removal of this constitutional restriction is of great 
consequence, because it casts upon woman a stigma of inferiority, of in- 
competency, of unworthiness of trust. It ranks her with criminals and 
mad-men, and idiots. It is essential to her, practically, as being the key 
to all her rights, which will open to her the door of equality and justice. 

Does any one believe, that if woman had possessed an equal voice in 
making our laws, we should have standing on our statute books, for gen- 
erations, laws so palpably unequal and unjust toward her? The idea is 
preposterous. 

If our sense of natural justice, and our theory of government, both 
agree, that the being who is to suffer under laws, shall first personally 
assent to them, and that the being whose industry the government is to 
burden should have a voice in fixing the character and amount of that 
burden; then, while woman is admitted to the gallows, the jail, and the 
tax list, we have no right to debar her from the ballot-box. 

Your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolution : 

J. D. Cattell. 
H. Canfield. 

Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee be instructed to report to the 
Senate, a bill to submit to tho qualified electors, at the next election for 
senators and representatives, an amendment to the constitution, Avhereby 
the elective franchise shall be extended to the citizens of Ohio, without 
distinction of sex. 

■Wisconsin Report on the Suffrage Question. The following extract from 
the report on the extension of the right of suffrage in Wisconsin, we find in 
the Milwaukie Free Democrat : 

" Perhaps no question ever submitted to a community would call forth so 
much of its mental activity, such a crusade into the realms of history, such 
a balancing of good and evil, of the past with the present, such an examin- 
ation of the social and political rights and relations, as the question whether 
the right of suffrage ought to be extended to all citizens over the age of 21, 
which would of course include both sexes. The giddy devotee of fashion 
3 



14 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

would be surprised in the midst of her frivolity, and be compelled to think 
and reason, in view of a new responsibility which is menacing her. Even if 
opposed to the proposition, she would be compelled to organize and inspire 
the public opinion necessary to defeat it. Whatever might be the event, 
woman's intellectual position would be changed, and changed forever, and 
with hers that of ail other classes. ° ° ° ° c ° ° ° ° ° ° ° 

Let no one imagine that he can dispose of this question by a contemptu- 
ous fling at strong-minded women and hen-pecked husbands. The princi- 
ple will gain more strength from the character of the arguments of its op- 
ponents, than from any number of Bloomer conventions. The modern idea 
of the fashionable belle, floating like a bird of paradise through the soiree ; 
the impersonation of motion and grace in the ball room, indulging alter- 
nately in syncope and rapture over the marvelous adventures and despair 
of the hero of a mushroom romance, her rapid transition from one excite- 
ment to another, to fill up the dreary vacuum of life, provoking as it does the 
secret derision of sensible men ; all this comes from that legislation, from 
that public opinion, which drives women away from real life ; from the dis- 
cussion of questions in which her happiness and destiny are involved. A 
senseless, though a false fondness, denies her a participation in all ques" 
tions of the actual world around her. The novel writers therefore create a 
fictitious world, filled with fantastic and hollow characters, for her to range 
in. A while she believes she is an angel, till some unfortunate husband 
finds her to be a moth on his fortune, and a baleful shadow stretching 
across his pathway, without curiosity or interests in all those practical real- 
ities, which the world, outside of her charmed existence, is attending to. 
These are the abortions of a false public opinion. For ages they have been 
regarded as the natural results of female organism. Hence woman has 
become famed as a gossip, because she would degrade herself by discussing 
judge A.'s qualifications for Judge of Probate, though Judge A. may yet 
appoint a guardian for her children. In the sewing society, she sews scan- 
dal or reads brocades, silks and crinolines, because it would be extremely 
coarse and vulgar in her to read the statutes of Wisconsin where her rights of 
person and property, marriage and divorce, are regulated. In those statutes 
she would find that though $350,000 are appropriated to build a University, 
she is as effectually excluded from that institution as though it was a convent 
of monks. So there is some inconvenience at last in being regarded as a 
bona fide angel, for angels have no use for Universities. Some indignant 
school-ma'am begins to suspect the hollow compliments of moon-struck ad- 
mirers, and demands a direct voice in the laws which provide for the 
mutual improvement of her sex. But the grave doctor of law puts on his 
spectacles and tells her she is fully and exactly represented in man, only 
more so. When he eats, she eats, when he thinks, she thinks, when he gets 
drunk, she gets drunk ; that it would be as absurd to provide for the board 
and education of one's own shadow as to provide a separate establishment 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 15 

for woman, who possesses all things, enjoys all things, and sways all things 
in man, as fully as though she did it herself. And a single woman, or 
widow, may pay taxes, but it would be outrageous for her to have a choice 
in the men who are to spend the money and then cry out for more. When 
married ten years ago, her education was equal to her husband's, now she 
cannot write a grammatical letter : her husband's mind has been enlarged 
by the influx of new ideas, and by contacts with the electric atmosphere of 
thought in the great world without ; but denied as she has been the right of 
expressing her will by a direct vote, she has lost all interest in passing 
events ; the globe has dwindled to a half acre lot and the village church. 
Her partner finds the match unequal, spends his time with more congenial 
society, and is out-and-out in favor of Moses' law of a galloping divorce. 
The old stager has filled the political arena with frauds and brawls, and 
bruises and blood ; and having levelled the morals of the ballot-box with 
those of the race-ground or box-ring, he has yet virtue enough left to de- 
clare that woman shall not enter this moral Aceldama. 

Yet it may be that democracy, for self-preservation, will be compelled to 
invite women to the ballot-box, to restrain and overawe the ruffianism of 
man. Though man smiles with secret derision at the competition of woman, 
in dress and show, yet he is too tender of her reputation to allow her the 
same field with himself wherein to exercise her powers. We believe that 
this contortion of character is justly attributable to the denial of the right 
of voting, the great mode by which the questions of the day are decided 
in this country. Politics are our national life. As civilization advances, 
its issues will penetrate still deeper into social and everyday life of the 
people ; and no man or woman can be regarded as an entity, as a power in 
society, who has not a direct agency in governing its results. Without a 
direct voice in moulding the spirit of the age, the age will disown us. 

But the objection is argued seriously. Political rivalry will arm the wife 
against the husband ; a man's foes will be those of his own household. 
But we believe that political equality will, by leading the thoughts and pur- 
poses of the sexes, to a just degree, into the same channel, more completely 
carry out the designs of nature. Women will be possessed of a positive 
power, and hollow compliments and rose-water flatteries will be exchanged 
for a pure admiration and a well-grounded respect, when we sec her nobly 
discharging her part in the great intellectual and moral struggles of the 
age, that wait their solution by a direct appeal to the ballot box. Woman's 
power is, at present, poetical and unsubstantial ; let it be practical and 
real. There is no reality in any power that cannot be coined into votes. 
The demagogue has a sincere respect and a salutary fear of the voter ; and 
he that can direct the lightning flash of the ballot-box is greater than he 
who possesses a continent of vapor, gilded with moon-shine. 

It is true, the right of voting would carry with it the right to hold office ; 
but since it is true that the sexes have appropriate spheres, the discretion 



16 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

of individual voters would recognize this fact, and as seldom elect a woman 
to an office, for which she is unfitted by nature and education, as incompetent 
men are now elected. But, the cruelty of our laws is seen in this — that 
where nature makes exceptions, the laws are inexorable. 

We have shown that woman is not correctly represented by man at the 
ballot box. Could her voice be heard, it would alter the choice of public 
men and their character. With legislators compelled to respect her opin- 
ions, the law itself, constitutions and politics reflect, to a just extent, her 
peculiar views and interests. Nor is it for us to decide whether these would 
be for the better or worse. Let the majority rule. Vox populi, vox Dei. 
Woman's intellect would enlarge with her more commanding political con- 
dition, and though she might blight the hopes of many a promising aspir- 
ant ; yet the Union would not be dissolved under her administration. Be- 
lieving the time has come when an appeal on her behalf to the voters of this 
State will not be in vain, we have prepared to submit the question to the 
people, by our amendment to the Senate bill. David Noggle. 

J. T. Mills. 

I altogether prefer the committee's amendment to the Senate bill. 

Feb. 27, 1S57. Hopewell Coxe. 

One Year's Work. The following are a portion of the results of the 
Women's Rights petitions, presented during the winter of 1856 — 7. 

In Ohio and Michigan, legislative Committees have reported favorably to 
the Right of Suffrage, and extracts from the reports are given above. 

Ohio, Maine, Indiana and Missouri have passed laws giving to married 
women the right to ccntrol their own earnings. The Ohio and Maine stat- 
utes are printed below ; also a Maine act, giving the husband title to an 
allowance from a deceased wife's property, similar to that now given by the 
law to widows. 

The memorial presented to the N. Y. legislature, owing to some mistake, 
was not offered till too late for action. 

Ohio Statute. Bill passed by the Ohio Legislature, April 17, 1857. 

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, 
that no married man shall sell, dispose of, or in any manner part with, any 
personal property, which is now, or may hereafter be, exempt from sale 
upon execution, without having first obtained the consent of his wife thereto. 

Sec. 2. If any married man shall violate the provisions of the forego- 
ing section, his wife may, in her own name, commence and prosecute to 
final judgment and execution, in civil action, for the recovery of such prop- 
erty or its value in money. 

Sec. 3. Any married woman, whose husband shall desert her, or from 
intemperance or other cause become incapacitated, or neglect to provide for 
his family, may, in her own name, make contracts for her own labor and 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 17 

the labor of her minor children, and in her own name, sir fox and soUeet 

her own or their earni-^s. 

Maive Statute. At the recer.: Srssi::: :: the Legislature af Maine, the 
following acts were pas 

"An act relating to the property of leceased married women. Be if en- 

,; "When a wife dies intestate and solvent, her surviving husband shall be 
an allowance from her persona] estate, and :. ".istributive • 
in the residue thereof, in the same manner as a widow is in the estate of 
her husband; and if she leaves issue he shall have the use :: jne-third, if 
no issue, one half of her real estate for life, to be received and assigned in 
the manner and with the rights of dower.'- Approved April 13th, 1857. 
in relation to the rights of married women. 
■ married woman may demand and receive the wages :: ersonal la- 
bor, performed other than for her own family, and may hold the same in 
her own right against her husband or any other person, and may maintain 
: jn therefor in her own name . 
Approved April 17th, 1857. 

Female Suffrage ls Kentucky. Kentu siky B Bvi a a 1 9 : atnt i a 1 BS 2 . ah. B ; 
Bchools and Seminaries.* 7 Art. 6, Sec. 1. 

An election shall be held at the school-house of each school d:s:: i : : :: : m 
9 o'clock in the morning, till«2 o'clock in the evening, of the first Saturday 
of April of each year, for the election of three Trustees for the District ::: 
ar, and until others are elected and qualified. The qualified voters 
in each District shall be the electors, and any widow having a child c- 
fix and eigh :•:-. igc, may also tote in person, or by written proxy." 

{T3ut if the suffrage is not limited to widomen who have a child between 
and eighteen, but extended to unmarried, married and childless men, — why 
it to women in those positions also ? Such a partial concession. -. 
luable as recognizing a principle, is not likely to be extensively 
r in this case, as in that of women who are stockholders in corporations, 
female voters will be deterred by their own small numbers and by the 
Prejudices of society. But give woman the equal right of suffrage, ar 
prejudice will soon be swept away.] 

Female Suffrage i>- Canada. [The following is the Canadian law under 
wB&h women vote. The omission of the word male was intentional, and 
was done to secure the weight of the Protestant property in the hands 
of women, against the Roman Catholic _ . rate 

schools. The law works welL " A friend of mine in Canada West toll me," 
Vacy Stone recently, " that when the law was first passed giving women 
who owned a certain amount of property, or who paid a given rental, a right 
to vote, he went trembling to the polls to see the result. The first woman who 
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18 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

came was a large property holder in Toronto; with marked respect the 
crowd gave way as she advanced. She spoke her vote and walked quietly 
away, sheltered by her womanhood. It was all the protection she needed."] 

Xvni and Xiv Victoria, Cap 48. An act for the better establishment and 
maintenance of Common Schools in Upper Canada. Passed July 24, 1850. 

Sec. 1. Preamble — Repeals former acts. 

Sec. 2. Enacts that the election of School Trustees shall take place on 
the second Wednesday of January in each year. 

Sec 22. And be it enacted, that in each Ward, into which any City or 
Town is or shall be divided according to Law, two fit and proper persons 
shall be elected School Trustees, by a majority of all the taxable inhabitants. 

Sec. 25. Enacts that on the second Wednesday in Jan. there shall be a 
meeting of all the taxable inhabitants of every incorporated village, and at 
such meeting six fit and proper persons, from among the resident household- 
ers, shall be elected School Trustees. 

Sec 5. Provides that in all Country School Districts, three trustees shall 
be similarly elected by a majority of the freeholders or householders of such 
school section. 



Woman's Rights in France. At the Annual W. R. Convention in New 
York, Nov. 1857, the following resolution was reported, from the business 
committee, by Mrs Ernestine L. Rose. 

" Resolved, That we also present our assurances of respect and sympathy 
to the supporters of the cause of women in Paris, the worthy successors of 
Pauline Roland and Jeanne Derouen, who, in the face of imperial despotism, 
dare to tell the truth." 

In commenting on this resolution, Mrs. Rose remarked that if the diffi- 
culties surrounding English women who advocated an amelioration of wo- 
man's condition were great, how much greater were those which surrounded 
the French women, owing to the blight of despotism in that country. They 
could write their thoughts, but their writings could not be published in 
France. They had to send their writings to one State in Italy, which was 
not crushed by dark and bitter despotism. That bright spot is Sardinia. 
The works of the noble French women had to be sent to Turin, printed there, 
and sent back to Paris for private, secret distribution. And when these 
women met in consultation, they had to watch the doors and windows, to see 
that all was secure. She knew many of them, but dared not mention their 
names, for fear that they might be borne across the Atlantic, and lead to 
their oppression and proscription. 

The noblest thoughts that had ever been uttered in France, were uttered 
by women, not only in past times,' before the Revolution, but down to the 
present day. Pauline Roland was imprisoned for uttering the truth, in 
consequence of which imprisonment she lost her arm. Jeanne Derouen was 



THE WOMAN'S EIGHTS ALMANAC. 



19 



exiled, and now resides in London, where she supports herself and her two 
daughters and son. She was educating them herself, because she had no 
means to pay for their education. She filled their minds with noble thoughts 
and feelings, even to the very sacrifice of themselves for the benefit of the 
race, and more especially for the elevation of woman, without which she 
feels convinced that the elevation of man can never be accomplished. 

But while the names of a few such noble women were made public, hun- 
dreds, nay, thousands, who had done as much, and even more than these, 
were in obscurity. They were constantly watching to find what was done 
in America. 

" The Emancipation of Wo:siex." A very curious controversy, on paper, 
is going on at present in the Revue Philosophique et Eeligieuse, between M. 
Proudhon and Mine. Tenny D'Hericourt. The latter defends, with great 
warmth, the moral, civil, and political emancipation of woman. Proudhon, 
in reply, declares that all the theories of Mme. D'Hericourt are inapplicable, 
in consequence of the inherent weakness of her sex. The periodical in 
which the contest is going on was founded and is conducted by the old St. 
Simoniens. 



Statistics 


i op Cotton Factories 


BY THE U. S. 


Census, 1850. 




No. estab. 


No. hands 


» employed. 


Average 


wages per mo 


States. 


lishments in 












operation. 


Males. 


Females. 


Males. 


Females. 


Maine, 


12 


780 


2,959 


$29 35 


$12 15 


New Hampshire, 


44 


2,911 


9,211 


26 00 


13 47 


Vermont, - 


9 


94 


147 


15 53 


12 65 


Massachusetts, 


213 


9,293 


19,437 


22 90 


13 60 


Ehode Island, 


153 


4,959 


5,916 


18 60 


12 95 


Connecticut, 


128 


2,708 


3,478 


19 08 


11 80 


New York, 


86 


2,632 


3,688 


18 32 


9 68 


New Jersey, 


21 


616 


1,096 


17 98 


9 56 


Pennsylvania, 


208 


3,561 


4,099 


17 85 


9 91 


Delaware, 


12 


413 


425 


15 31 


11 58 


Maryland, 


24 


1,008 


2,014 


15 42 


9 48 


Virginia, 


27 


1,275 


1,688 


10 18 


6 98 


North Carolina, 


28 


442 


1,177 


11 65 


6 13 


South Carolina, 


18 


399 


620 


13 94 


8 30 


Georgia, 


35 


873 


1,399 


14 57 


7 39 


Florida, 


— 


28 


67 


32 14 


5 00 


Alabama, 


12 


346 


369 


31 71 


7 98 


Mississippi, 


2 


19 


17 


14 21 


5 94 


Arkansas, 


3 


13 


18 


14 61 


5 88 


Tennessee, 


33 


310 


581 


10 94 


6 42 


Kentucky, 


8 


181 


221 


14 95 


9 36 


Ohio, 


8 


132 


269 


16 59 


9 42 


Indiana, 


2 


38 


57 


13 02 


6 77 


Missouri, 


2 


75 


80 


10 93 


10 00 


District of Columbia, 1 


41 


103 


14 02 


8 00 



Total, 



1,094 



33,150 59,136 



20 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 



Statistic 


s of Woolen J 


Factories, 


, Br THE U. S. 


Census, 


1850. 




No. estab- 


No. hands employed. 


Average wages per mo. 


States. 


lishments in 












operation. 


Males. 


Females. 


Males. 


Females. 


Maine, 


36 


310 


314 


$22 57 


$11 77 


New Hampshire, 


61 


926 


1,201 


22 86 


14 53 


Vermont, 


72 


683 


710 


24 46 


11 81 


Massachusetts, 


119 


6,167 


4,963 


22 95 


14 22 


Rhode Island, 


45 


987 


771 


20 70 


15 18 


Connecticut, 


149 


2,907 


2,581 


24 12 


12 86 


New York, 


249 


4,262 


2,412 


19 97 


1176 


New Jersey, 


41 


411 


487 


25 22 


8 60 


Pennsylvania, 


380 


3,490 


2,236 


19 23 


10 41 


Delaware, 


8 


122 


18 


18 79 


17 33 


Maryland, 


38 


262 


100 


18 60 


11 89 


Virginia, 


121 


478 


190 


18 17 


9 91 


North Carolina, 


1 


15 


15 


18 00 


7 00 


Georgia, 


3 


40 


38 


27 47 


14 10 


Texas, 


1 


4 


4 


20 00 


20 00 


Tennessee, 


4 


15 


2 


17 66 


6 00 


Kentucky, 


25 


256 


62 


15 30 


1111 


Ohio, 


130 


903 


298 


20 14 


10 90 


Michigan, 


15 


78 


51 


21 65 


1147 


Indiana, 


33 


189 


57 


21 81 


1105 


Illinois, 


16 


124 


54 


22 00 


12 52 


Missouri, 


1 


15 


10 


32 00 


6 50 


Iowa, 


1 


7 




11 14 





Wisconsin, 


9 


25 




22 48 





District of Columbia, 1 


2 




30 00 






Total, 



1,559 



22 678 



16,574 



Comparative Wages op Male and Female Teachers. 



State. Year. 


No. Male 


No. Female 


Av. Male 


Av. Female Authority. 




Teachers. 


Teachers. 


Wages. 


Wages. 


Maine, 1847 






$15,40 


$5,00 Rep. 1847. 


1850 






16,66 


5,84 Rep. 1850. 


1851 


2454 


3535 




Rep. 1851. 


1852 


2767 


4248 


17,33 


6,16 Am. Statist Aim. 


1855 


2559 


4137 


20,57 


8,23 Rep. 1855. 


N. Harap. 1847 






13,50 


5,65 \ 

6,44/ Rep. 1851. 


1851 






14,64 


1852 






15,18 


6,63) 

6,99 / Amer. Aim. 


1853 






15,68 


1855 


1146 


3253 


17,38 


7,83 App. Rep. 1855. 


1856 


1077 


3042 


18,45 


8,42 App, Rep. 1856. 


Vermont. 1845 






11,72 


4.75 Rep. 1848. 


1849 




68 per ci 


;. 13,12 


5,26 \ 

5,63 /Rep. 1850. 


1850 




70 " 


13,55 


1851 






13,55 


5,54 Amer. Aim. 


R. L 1850 






28,75 


16,50 Rep. 1850. 


1851 






34,00 


15,70 Rep. 1851. 


1852 


256 


313 






1854 


278 


350 




Rep. 1854. 


1856 


275 


404 


33,65 


17,96 Rep. 1856. 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 



21 



1837 2370 
1838-9 2411 
1839-402378° 

1810-1 2491 
1811-2 2500 
1842-3 2414- 
1843-4 2529 
1844-5 2595 
1845-6 2585 
1846-7 2437 
1847-8 2124 
1848-9 2426 
1849-50 2442 
1850-1 2432 
1851-2 2154 
1853-4 2214 
1854-5 2114 
1846 



1847 

1852 

1853 

1856 

1844 

1846 

1818 

1852 

1854 

1855 

1856 

1844 

1815 

1847 

1852 

1854 

1855 

1847 

1850 

1851 

1852 

1854 

1855 

1847 

1852 

1854 

1855 

1852 

1855 

1845 

1850 

1852 

1855 

1852 

1853 

1854 

1855 



1526 
1730 
1730 
981 
6194 
5990 

995 
1129 
1201 
1111 

5257 

7860 
7590 
8003 

7924 
8350 
7272 
9902 
11202 



2432 
3018 
2397 
2492 
1209 
1435 
806 
961 



3591 

3825 

3928- 

4112 

4882 

4301° 

4581 

4700 

4967 

5238 

5510 

5737 

5985 

6262 

6456 

7063 

7333 

1749 

1750 
1750 
2193 
6334 
7825 

472 
628 
780 
719 

2882 

3853 
3640 
4140 

5168 

5706 
5292 
8502 
9974 



666 

841 

1669 

1557 

1981 

2618 

525 

772 



$25,44 $11,38 



33,08 
33,80 

32,22 

32,11 
31,76 
32,46 
33,05 
34,02 
34,89 
36,29 
37,26 
37,76 
41 ,45 
16,00 
14,96 
20,25 
40,50 
28,75 
14,28 
13,81 
15,95 

22,00 
28,91 
29,50 
17,54 
16,88 
17,02 
18,75 
19,25 
22,29 
15,42 



14,29 
23,00 
25,00 
12,00 
20,00 
23,01 
23,00 
17,64 
23,01 
12,71 
14,14 
16,38 
19,61 
16,34 
18,24 
21,10 
22,84 



12,75 
12,81 

12,78 



13,15 

13,60 

14,13 

14,19 

14,42 

15,25 

15,36 

15,88 

17,29 

6,00 

6,69 

7,85 

15,70 

17,25 

. 7,00 

6,50 

6,99 

17,08 
16,91 
18,00 
11,06 
10,41 
10,09 
11,46 
12,03 
14,89 
8,73 



6,02 

13,00 

14,00 

6,00 

10,00 

15,62 

15,72 

10,32 

15,62 

5,36 

6,46 

8,48 

9,39 

8,52 

9,20 

10,87 

12,09 



Mann's 11th Rep. 
Rep. 1847. 
Amer. Aim. 
Rep. 1853. 
Rep. 1856. 
Rep. 1844. 
Rep. 1846. 
Rep. 1848. 
Amer. Aim. 
Rep. 1854. 
Rep. 1855. 
Rep. 1856. 
Rep. 1844. 
Rep. 1845. 

Amer. Aim. 
App. Rep. 1854. 
Rep. 1855. 
Mann's 11th Rep. 
Rep. 1850. 
Rep. 1851. 
Rep. 1852. 
Rep. 1854. 
Amer. Aim. 
Mann's 11th Rep. 
Rep. 1852. 
Rep. 1855. 
A^mer. Aim. 
Amer. Aim. 
Rep. 1855. 
Rep. 1845. 
Rep. 1850. 
Am. Statist. Aim. 
Amer. Aim. 
Amer. Aim. 
Report 1853. 
Report 1854. 
Amer. Aim. 



The returns for these years were not quite complete. 



22 THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 

Note. The foregoing statistics were compiled with much labor, expressly 
for this Almanac. They are necessarily defective, in obvious respects. For 
instance it is not designated, in most cases, whether the compensation is 
with or without board. But as the point of interest here is the comparative 
wages, this is of less importance. 

The tables exhibit the following results : 

1. The wages of female teachers, average less than one half those of males. 

2. Their wages are not yet increasing more rapidly than those of males. 

3. On the other hand, the proportion of females employed is constantly 
increasing. 

4. This proportion is largest in those cities where public education is in 
the highest condition, especially in Massachusetts. 

[The demand of the Woman's Rights movement have never, perhaps, been 
stated more pointedly than in the following.] 

Sixth National Woman's Rights Convention. In this epoch of political 
and social excitement, the advocates of the Equal Rights of Woman find 
new reason to proclaim, again their constant demand for a consistent appli- 
cation of democratic principles, for the emancipation not alone of one class 
or one nation, but of one-half the human race. 

We accordingly invite 

All who believe that Government derives its just powers from the consent 
of the governed ; — 

All who believe that Taxation and Representation should go together ; — 

All who believe in the right of all to a Trial by a Jury of their Peers ; — 

All who believe in a fair day's wages for a fair day's work ; — 

All who believe in the equal right of all children in the community to its 
public provisions for Education ; — 

To meet in Convention at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, on the 
8th, 9th, and 10th of October next, to consider whether these right3 and 
principles shall continue to be popularly limited to one-half the members of 
the community. Paulina Wright Davis, Pres't. 

Lucy Stone, Sec'y. 

Woman's Rights in Revolutionary Times. The celebrated wife of John 
Adams, wrote* thus to him, May 7, 1776. " I cannot say that I think you 
are very generous to the ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace, and 
goodwill to men, emancipating all nations, you insist on retaining an abso- 
lute power over wives." 



THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ALMANAC. 23 

Testimonial to Miss Mitchell. The fame of our talented countrywoman, 
Miss Maria Mitchell of Nantucket, has spread far and wide among astron- 
omers, and is cherished with pride by all Americans. We are glad to learn 
that it is proposed to present her a testimonial which will be at once an ap- 
propriate tribute to her talents, and an aid in the future prosecution of her 
astronomical researches. An observatory on Nantucket Island is for sale on 
very favorable terms, and a plan is on foot for its purchase, to be pre- 
sented to her. Ths sum needed is $3000, of which more than a third has 
been raised by ladies in Philadelphia and its neighborhood. 

Miss Mitchell is now in Europe, visiting the principal observatories and 
astronomers there, and it is hoped that she will soon be gratefully surprised 
by learning that the very imperfect means hitherto at her disposal in pur- 
suing her favorite science, are to be replaced on her return by a collection 
of instruments which she will be delighted to possess. Drs. Bond of Har- 
vard College observatory, and Hall of Providence, have interested themselves 
in securing this object, and express strongly their opinion that valuable 
results to science cannot fail to be realized by furnishing so skillful and 
diligent an observer as Miss Mitchell the proposed aids to her researches. 
Dr. Bond expresses the conviction that Nantucket enjoys special advantages 
as an astronomical site, on account of its comparative exemption from ther- 
mometrical disturbances of the atmosphere. 

We hope this worthy tribute to our countrywoman's scientific merit, 
will not fail to be paid. Miss Mitchell's friends have the refusal of the 
observatory only till September 1st, and several other purchasers are ready 
to take it at once. Dr. Geo. Choate of Salem has consented to receive the 
pledges of such as desire to be enrolled among the subscribers to the fund, 
amorjg whose names are already the honored ones of Edward Everett, J. I. 
Bowditch, John C. Brown of Providence, and F. Peabody of Salem, besides 
other munificent patrons of science. [Journal of Commerce. 



ECLIPSES FOR 1858. 

There will be four Eclipses this year, as follows : 

I. A partial Eclipse of the Moon, Feb. 27th, in the evening. Visible in 
the Eastern part of the United States. The Moon will rise with a very 
small Eclipse upon its southern limb. 

II. x\n annular Eclipse of the Sun, March loth, in the morning. Visible 
in the United States as a partial Eclipse, and only seen east of Wisconsin, 
Illinois, and the Mississippi river. The Sun rises with the eclipse upon it. 
Size, about 5 digits on the southern limb. End at Boston, 7 h. 48 m. ; New- 
York, 7 h. 31 m. ; Philadelphia. 7h 25 m. ; Washington 7 h. 11 m. ; Charles- 
ton, G h. 48 m. 

III. A partial Eclipse of the Moon, August 21th. Invisible except upon 
the Pacific coast. 

IV. A total Eclipse of the Sun, Sept. 7th. Invisible in the United States, 
except a mere contact of limbs in Florida, Texas, and the extreme southern 
portion of Alabama and Mississippi, at the time of sunrise. 

MORNING AND EVENING STARS. Venus will be Morning Star until 
February 28th, then Evening Star until December 13th. Mars will be Morn- 
ing Star until May 15th, then Evening Star the rest of the year. 

Jupiter will be Evening Star until May 19th, then Morning Star until De- 
cember 8th. Saturn will be Morning Star until Jan. 15th, then Evening 
Star until July 25th, then Morning Star the rest of the year. 

MERCURY. This planet will be visible in the West soon after sun- 
set, about April 17, August 15, and December 10 ; also before sunrise in the 
East about February 10, June 10, and October 31. 



1st MONTH. 



JilUiKf, 1858, 



31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


BOSTON. PHTLADELPH. 


3ALTIM0EE. CHARLESTON. ^ UT1 0n M erid. | 










or noon maris. 


d. 


h. m. ] 


i. m. 1 


3. m. 


h. m. d. i h. m. s. / 


Last Quarter . 6 


8 3ev. 


7 46 ev. 


7 40 ev. 


7 28 ev. 


1 12 3 57 


New Moon ... 15 


48 mo. 


31 mo. 


25 mo. 


13 mo. 


9 12 7 30) 


First Quarter . 22, 


13 ev. 


.1 56 mo. 11 50 mo. 


11 38 mo. 17112 10 29 \ 


Full Moon . . . 29, 4 27 mo. 


4 10 mo. 


4 4 mo. 


3 52 mo. 25|12 12 41 


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Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon ) 


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H M 


H M 


H M 


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7 


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Fr 


23 


7 31 


-137 


6 48 


ev 4 


7 24 


4 44 


6 55 


9 38 


7 19 


4 49 


2 


Sa 


22 55 


7 31 


4 38 


8 2 


55 


7 24 


4 44 


8 8 


10 26 


7 19 


4 50 


8 11 


3 


C 


22 49 


7 31 


4 39 


9 17 


142 


7 21 


4 45 


9 20 


11 11 


7 19 


4 51 


9 22 


4 


M 


22 43 


7 31 


4 40 


10 27 


2 29 


7 24 


4 46 


10 27 


11 56 


7 19 


4 52 


10 28 


5 


Tu 


22 36 


7 31 


141 


11 31 


3 10 


7 23 


4 47 


11 31 


ev 40 


7 19 


453 


1130 


6 


W 


22 29 


7 30 


142 


morn 


3 54 


7 23 


148 


morn 


121 


7 19 


4 54 


morn 


7 


Tk 


22 21 


7 30 


4 43 


36 


4 36 


7 23 


4 49 


31 


2 9 


7 19 


4 55 


32 


8 


Fr 


22 13 


7 30 


144 


1 39 


5 23 


7 23 


4 50 


135 


3 3 


7 19 


4 55 


1 32 


9 


Sa 


22 5 


7 30 


145 


2 41 


6 24 


7 23 


4 51 


2 38 


3 53 


7 19 


4 56 


2 34 


10 


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7 29 


4 46 


3 48 


7 29 


7 23 


152 


3 40 


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7 19 


4 57 


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7 29 


147 


4 50 


8 40 


7 23 


4 53 


4 42 


5 41 


7 18 


4 58 


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L2 


Tu 


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7 29 


148 


5 52 


9 46 


7 23 


4 54 


5 40 


6 37 


7 18 


5 59 


5 33 


L3 


W 


21 27 


7 28 


4 49 


6 44 


10 35 


7 22 


4 55 


6 32 


7 26 


7 18 


5 


6 25 


14 


Th 


21 16 


7 28 


4 50 


7 27 


11 20 


7 22 


4 56 


7 18 


8 11 


7 18 


5 1 


7 11 


L5 


Fr 


21 5 


7 28 


151 


sets 


1158 


7 22 


4 57 


sets 


8 56 


7 18 


5 2 


sets ] 


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Sa 


20 51 


7 27 


4 52 


6 25 


morn 


7 22 


4 58 


6 32 


9 36 


7 17 


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7 27 


153 


7 32 


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7 21 


4 59 


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7 17 


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7 16 


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Tu 


20 17 


7 25 


4 55 


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7 20 


5 1 


9 51 


1133 


7 16 


5 7 


9 51 


20 


W 


20 5 


7 25 


4 57 


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7 20 


5 3 


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morn 


7 15 


5 8 


10 58 


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19 51 


7 24 


4 58 


morn 


2 51 


7 19 


5 4 


morn 


18 


7 15 


5 9 


morn ) 


22 


Fr 


19 38 


7 24 


4 59 


13 


3 33 


7 18 


5 5 


10 


1 6 


7 14 


5 10 


7 


23 


Sa 


19 24 


7 23 


5 


128 


4 15 


7 18 


5 6 


121 


2 1 


7 14 


5 11 


120' 


24 


€ 


19 9 


7 22 


5 1 


2 47 


5 2 


7 17 


5 7 


2 40 


3 11 


7 13 


5 12 


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3 49 

5 1 


25 


M 


1 8 6 1 


7 22 


5 3 


4 5 


6 6 


7 16 


5 8 


3 56 


4 18 


7 12 


5 13 


26 


Tu 


18 39 


7 21 


5 4 


5 18 


7 26 


7 16 


5 10 


5 8 


5 31 


7 12 


5 14 


27 


W 


18 21 


7 20 


5 5 


6 17 


8 56 


7 15 


5 11 


6 8 


6 40 


7 11 


5 15 


6 1 


28 


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18 8 


7 19 


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rises 


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7 14 


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rises 


7 40 


7 10 


5 17 


rises S 


29 


Fr 


17 52 


7 18 


5 8 


5 36 


11 11 


7 14 


5 13 


5 43 


8 28 


7 9 


5 18 


5 47 


30 


Sa 17 3G 


7 17 


5 10 


6 52 


ev 1 


7 13 


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6 57 


9 18 


7 9 


5 19 


6 59( 


31 


C 17 19 


7 16 


5 11 


8 3 


46 


7 12 


5 16 


8 6 


9 58 


7 8 


5 20 


8 7 



A Lady Horsebreaker in France. In consequence of the success obtained 
by Madame Isabelle in breaking in horses for the Russian army, the French 
minister of war lately authorised her to proceed officially before a commis- 
sion composed of general and superior officers of cavalry, with General Reg- 
nault de St. Jean d'Angely at their head, to a practical demonstration of 
her method on a certain number of young cavalry horses. After twenty 
days' training, the horses were so perfectly broken in, that the minister no 
longer hesitated to enter into an arrangement with Madame Isabelle to in- 
troduce her system into all the imperial schools of cavalry, beginning with 
that of Saumur. — Galignani's Messenger. 



2d Month. 



FEBRUARY, 1858, 



28 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES, boston, philadelph. baltimobe. Charleston 



Last Quarter. 
New Moon. . . 
First Quarter 
Full Moon. . . 



h. in. 

4 32 ev. 

5 29 ev. 
8 14 ev. 
5 21 ev. 



h. m. 

4 15 ev. 

5 12 ev. 

7 57 ev. 
5 4 ev. 



m. 

9 ev. 

6 ev. 

51 ev. 

58 ev. 



h. m. 

3 57 ev. 

4 51 ev, 
7 39 ev. 
4 46 ev. 



Sun on Merid. 
or noon mark. 



12 13 55, 
12 14 30' 
12 14 6| 
12 13 17< 



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03 


MILWAUKIE 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


H.W. 


( P 


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rises 


sets. 


rises. 


Bost'n 






a « 


H M 


H M 


H M 


H M 


) 1 


M 


17 2 


7 15 


5 13 


9 13 


126 


2 


Tu 


16 45 


7 14 


5 15 


10 20 


2 3 


3 


VV 


16 27 


7 13 


5 16 


11 25 


2 41 


4 


Th 


16 9 


7 11 


5 18 


morn 


3 15 


5 


Fr 


15 51 


7 10 


5 19 


31 


3 50 


6 


Sa 


15 33 


7 9 


5 21 


1 37 


4 26 


7 


C 


15 14 


7 8 


5 22 


2 41 


5 10 


8 


M 


14 55 


7 7 


5 23 


3 41 


6 18 


9 


Tu 


14 36 


7 5 


5 24 


4 36 


7 42 


ho 


W 


14 16 


7 4 


5 25 


5 24 


9 9 


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Th 


13 57 


7 3 


5 26 


5 5 


10 16 


(12 


Fr 


13 37 


7 2 


5 28 


6 37 


11 2 


(13 


Sa 


13 17 


7 1 


5 29 


sets 


1140 


)u 


c 


12 56 


7 


5 30 


6 30 


morn 


(15 


M 


12 36 


6 58 


5 32 


7 41 


16 


)16 


Tu 


12 15 


6 57 


5 33 


8 51 


50 


(17 


W 


1154 


6 55 


5 35 


10 4 


1 21 


18 


Th 


11 33 


6 51 


5 36 


11 19 


1 56 


19 


Fr 


11 11 


6 52 


5 33 


morn 


2 29 


(20 


Sa 


10 50 


6 51 


5 39 


36 


3 5 


)21 


C 


10 28 


6 49 


5 40 


1 54 


3 44 


(22 


M 


10 6 


6 47 


5 42 


3 7 


4 34 


23 


Tu 


9 44 


6 45 


5 48 


4 10 


5 37 


21 


W 


9 22 


6 44 


5 45 


5 1 


7 11 


25 


Th 


9 


6 43 


5 46 


5 40 


8 55 


26 


Fr 


8 38 


6 41 


5 47 


6 11 


10 11 


(27 


Sa 


8 15 


6 39 


5 49 


rises 


11 6 


28 


C 


7 53 


6 38 


5 50 


6 53 


11 49 



NEW- 


YORK 


PHILADELPHIA 


PITTSBURGH 


INDIANAPOLIS 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


H.W. 


rises 


sets. 


rises. 


N. Y. 


H M 


H M 


H M 


H M 


7 11 


5 17 


9 13 


10 38 


7 10 


5 18 


10 19 


11 13 


7 9 


5 19 


11 22 


11 56 


7 8 


5 21 


moin 


ev39 


7 7 


5 22 


25 


1 26 


7 6 


5 23 


1 29 


2 15 


7 5 


5 24 


2 31 


3 15 


7 3 


5 26 


3 30 


4 17 


7 2 


5 27 


4 25 


5 15 


7 1 


5 29 


5 13 


6 13 


6 59 


5 30 


5 55 


7 4 


6 58 


5 31 


6 29 


7 46 


6 57 


5 32 


sets 


8 28 


6 56 


5 33 


6 34 


9 9 


6 54 


5 34 


7 42 


9 49 


6 53 


5 35 


8 50 


10 24 


6 52 


5 36 


10 1 


11 5 


6 50 


5 37 


11 14 


1151 


6 49 


5 38 


morn 


m r 


6 47 


5 40 


30 


55 


6 46 


5 41 


1 45 


147 


6 44 


5 42 


2 56 


3 


6 43 


5 43 


3 59 


4 16 


6 41 


5 44 


4 52 


5 27 


6 40 


5 45 


5 34 


6 30 


6 39 


5 47 


6 7 


7 21 


6 38 


5 48 


rises 


8 2 


6 36 


5 49 


6 54 


8 46 



BALTIMORE' 
CINCINNATI 
ST. LOUIS 
S. FRANCISCO 



Sun Sun 
rises sets 



7 
6 
5 
4 
3 
2 
1 

58 
6 59 
6 57 
6 55 
6 54 
6 53 
6 52 
6 51 
6 49 
6 48 
6 47 
6 46 
6 44 
6 43 
6 42 
6 40 
6 38 
6 37 
6 36 
6 34 



H M 

5 21 

5 23 

5 24 

25 

5 26 

5 27 

5 28 

5 29 

5 30 

5 32 

33 

34 

30 



5 38 
5 39 
5 40 
5 41 
5 42 
5 44 
5 45 
5 46 
5 47 
548 
5 49 
5 51 
5 52 



Moon 



H M 

9 13' 

10 18! 

11 19 
morn 

21 

1 24 

2 25 

3 23 

4 1! 

5 6' 

5 49 

6 24 
sets 

6 36; 

7 43 

8 49 

9 59 

ii io ; 

morn 

25 < 

139; 

2 49 

3 52 

4 46 

5 29 
6 
rises' 

6 55 



There is near Trenton, says the Newark Advertiser, a woman who isai 
skilful mechanic. She has made a carriage, and can make a violin or a [ 
gun. She is only 25 years old. 

This is told as though it were something wonderful for a woman to have 
mechanical genius ; when the fact is, that there are thousands all over the 
country who would make as good mechanics and handle tools with as much 
skill and dexterity as men, if they were only allowed to make manifest their 
ingenuity and inclinations. A girPs hands and head are formed very much 
like those of a boy, and if put to a trade at the age when boys are usually 

; apprenticed, she will master her business quite as soon as the boy— be the 

ij trade what it may. 



3d Month. 



MARCH, ISm. 



31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


BOSTON. PHILADELPH. 


BALTIMORE. 

h. m. 

1 3ev. 
7 5 mo. 

2 35 mo. 
7 Omo. 


CHARLESTON. 

h. m. 
51 ev. 
6 53 mo. 
2 23 mo. 

6 48 mo. 


Sun on Merid. 
or noon mark- 


d. 
Last Quarter. . 7 
New Moon ... 15 
First Quarter . 22 
Full Moon |29 


h. m. h. m. 

1 26 ev. 1 1 9 ev. 
7 28 mo. 7 11 mo. 

2 58 mo. 2 41 mo. 
7 23 mo.| 7 6 mo. 


d. h. m. s. 
1 12 12 32 
9 12 10 41 

17 12 8 29 
25|12 6 3 



7 30 
7 7 
6 44 
6 21 
5 58 
5 35 
5 11 
4 48 
4 25 
■!• 1 
3 38 
3 14 
2 50 
2 27 
2 3 
1 39 
1 15 
52 
28 
s. 4 
n. 19 

43 

1 7 
1 30 

1 5 t 

2 17 

2 41 

3 4 
3 28 

3 51 

4 14 



BOSTON 
ROCHESTER 

DETROIT 
MILWAUKIE 



Sun 

rises 



H M 

6 36 
6 35 
6 33 
6 31 
6 30 
6 28 
6 26 
6 25 
6 23 
6 21 
6 20 
6 18 
6 16 
6 14 
6 13 
6 11 
6 9 



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4 
2 

59 
5 57 

5 55 
5 53 
5 52 
5 50 
5 48 
5 46 
5 45 



Sun ]Moon 
sets, rises. 



H M 

5 51 
5 52 
5 53 
5 54 
5 55 
5 56 
5 57 
5 5S 
59 




I H.W. j Sun 
Bost'n ' rises 



NEW-YORK 
PHILADELPHIA 

PITTSBURGH 
INDIANAPOLIS 



H M | H M 



9 9 

10 16! 

11 22 
morn 

26 

1 30 

2 27 

3 18 

4 1 
4 35 



3 ev28 



1 2 
135 

2 7 

2 36 

3 8 

3 41 

4 23 

5 21 

6 53 
8 30 

5 6 9 47 
5 32 10 31 
5 53 11 14 
sets 1 1 48 
7 50 m rn 



9 6 
9 10 25 



6 1011 45 
6 12 morn 



6 13 

6 14 

6 15 

6 17 

6 18 

6 19 

6 20j 

6 21 5 22 10 45 

9 22 rises 11 26 

6 23 7 56 11 59 

6 24-1 9 2 ev31 



1 9 

2 7 

2 50 

3 42 

4 14 

4 41 

5 9 



20 

53 

1 25 

2 5 

2 42 

3 26 

4 19 

5 32 

7 16 

8 53 
10 1 



6 10 
6 11 
1 6 13 
6 14 
5 58 6 15 
5 56 6 16 
5 55 6 17 
5 53 6 18 
5 51 6 19 
5 50 6 20 
5 48 6 21 
5 47 6 22 



H M H M 

6 34 5 51 
6 33 5.52 
6 31 5 53 
6 30 5 54 
6 28 5 55 
6 27 5 56 
6 26 5 57 
6 25 5 58 
6 24 5 59 
6 22 6 
6 20 6 
6 18 6 
6 16 6 
6 15 6 
6 13 6 
6 11 6 
6 10 6 
6 8 6 
7 6 



Sun Moon H.W. 
rises. N. Y. 

H M 

9 27 
10 2 

10 39 

11 16 

12 



8 1 

9 5 

10 10 

11 14 
morn 

17 

1 19 

2 16 

3 7 

3 51 

4 26 

4 58 

5 25 
5 49 
sets 
7 46 
9 1 

10 17 

11 34 
morn 

49 

1 55 

2 49 

3 33 

4 7 

4 35 

5 
5 22 
rises 

7 52 

8 58 



ev48 

1 42 

2 42 

3 46 

4 46 

5 44 

6 34 

7 20 

7 57 

8 37 

9 20 
10 

10 46 

11 35 
morn 

35 

1 43 

2 58 
411 

5 12 

6 9 

6 56 

7 38 

8 11 

8 50 

9 30 



BALTIMORE, 
CINCINNATI, 

ST.LOUIS 
S. FRANCISCO 



Sun Sun Moon 
rises sets, rises. 



H M 

6 33 
6 32 
6 30 
6 29 
6 27 
6 26 
6 24 
6 23 
6 21 
6 20 
6 18 
6 17 
6 15 
6 13 
6 12 
6 10 
6 9 
6 7 
6 6 



5 59 
5 58 
5 56 
5 54 
5 53 
5 51 
5 50 
5 48 
5 47 



5 54 
5 55 
5 56 

5 57 
5 57 
5 58 

5 59 

6 



8 

9 3 

10 7 

11 9 
morn 

Oil 



6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 

6 8 
6 9 
6 10 
6 11 
6 12 
6 13 
6 14 
6 15 
6 16 
6 17 
6 18 
6 19 
6 19 
6 20 
6 21 
6 22 



12 

9 



45 

21 

4 54 

5 22 
5 48 
sets 

7 44 

8 5! 

10 1; 

11 28 
morn 

42 

1 48 

2 42 

3 28' 

4 3 
4 32 

4 58 

5 22 
rises 

7 49 
854 



Upwards of ten thousand females in New York, forty thousand in Paris, 
and eighty thousand in London, are said by statisticians, to regularly earn a 
daily living by immoral practices. And yet all these are Christian cities. 

A widow lady of Bury, Mary Chapman, who would appear to have been a 
warlike dame, making her will in 1649, leaves to one of her sons, among, 
other things, " also my muskett, rest, bandileers, sword, and headpiece, my \ 
jacke, a fine paire of sheets, and a hutche." 



? 4th. Month. 






APRII 


'5 


1858. 








30 Days. < 


MOON'S PHASES. 


EOSTON. 


PHILADELEH. 


BALTIMORE. 


CnAELESTON. 


|Sun on Merid. 
or noon mark. 


{ ,d. 
/Last Quarter. . G 


h. m. 


h. m. 


h 


. m. 


h. m. 




d. | h. m. s. 


8 59 mo. 


• 8 42 mo. 


8 36 mo. 


8 24 mo. 


l|l2 3 54 


mew Moon. . . .13 


6 31 ev. 


6 1 4 ev. 


6 8 ev. 


5 5Q cv. 


9 12 1 33 


> First Quarter . 20 


9 42 mo. 


9 25 mo. 


9 19 mo. 


9 7 mo. 


17 11 59 30 


Full Moon 2710 12 ev. 


9 55 ev. 


9 49 ev. | 9 37 ev. 


25 11 t 


>7 50 
ORE 


\ "° 




fc 


BOSTON 


N E W - Y R K 


BALTIM 


1 


^3 




ROCHESTER 


PHILADELPHIA 


CINCINNATI 


> % 


fe 


"3 


DETROIT 


PITTSBURGH 


ST. LOUIS 


s ° 

) c3 




T3 

"is I 




MILWAUK 


IE 
H.W. 


INDIANAPOLIS 


S. FRANCISCO 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


J P 


P 


w. 


rises 

H M 


sets. 

H M 


rises. Bost'n 

H M H M 


rises 

H M 


sets- 


rises. 


N. Y. 

H M 


rises 

H M 


sets. 

H M 


rises. 


o < 


H M 


H M 


H M 


^ 1 


Th 


4 37 


5 43 


6 25 


10 11 1 4 


5 45 


6 23 


10 2 


10 7 


5 46 


6 23 


9 57 


S 2 


Fr 


5 


5 41 


6 27 


11 15 1 31 


5 44 


6 24 


11 6 


10 47 


5 44 


6 24 


11 


3 
4 


Sa 


5 23 


5 40 


6 28 


morn 2 4 


5 42 


6 25 


morn 


11 29 


5 42 


6 25 


11 -58 


€ 


5 4G 


5 38 


6 29 


15 2 35 


5 41 


6 26 


5 


ev20 


5 41 


6 26 


morn 


5 


M 


6 9 


5 36 


6 30 


1 10 3 13 


5 39 


6 27 


58 


1 13 


5 39 


6 27 


51 


< G 


T.u 


6 32 


5 35 


6 31 


1 55 3 54 


5 37 


6 28 


144 


2 10 


5 37 


6 27 


1 37 


j 7 


W 


6.51 


5 33 


6 32 


2 32 4 47 


5 36 


6 29 


2 23 


3 12 


5 36 


6 28 


2 17 


I .8 


Th 


7 17 


5 31 


6 33 


3 2 6 14 


5 34 


6 30 


2 56 


4 12 


5 34 


6 29 


2 52 


9 


Fr 


7 39 


5 30 


6 36 


3 29 7 44 


5 33 


6 31 


3 24 


5 1 


5 33 


6 30 


3 20 


10 


Sa 


8 1 


5 28 


6 36 


3 53 9 


5 31 


6 32 


3 50 


5 56 


5 31 


6 31 


4 11 


11 


C 


8 23 


5 26 


6 37 


4 14 9 53 


5^0 


6 33 


4 14 


6 43 


5 30 


6 32 


4 13 


12 


M 


8 45 


5 25 


6 38 


4 36 10 34 


5 28 


6 34 


4 37 


7 25 


5 28 


6 33 


4 37 


13 


Tu 


9 7 


5 23 


6 39 


4 58 11 10 


5 26 


6 35 


5 1 


8 7 


5 27 


6 34 


5 3 


14 


W 


9 29 


5 21 


6 40 


sets 11 45 


5 24 


6 36 


sets 


8 53 


5 25 


6 35 


sets 


15 


Th 


9 50 


5 20 


6 41 


9 22 morn 


5 22 


6 37 


9 15 


9 42 


5 24 


6 36 


9 20 


16 


Fr 


10 12 


5 18 


G 43 


10 44 


23 


5 21 


6 38 


10 34 


10 33 


5 23 


6 37 


10 28 


17 


Sa 


10 33 


5 1G 


6 44 


11 56 


1 2 


5 19 


6 39 


11 45 


11 29 


5 21 


6 38 


1138 


18 


C 


10 54 


5 15 


6 45 


morn 


1 43 


5 18 


6 40 


morn 


morn 


5 20 


6 39 


morn 


19 


M 


11 15 


5 13 


6 46 


54 


2 27 


5 17 


6 41 


44 


34 


5 18 


6 40 


37 


20 


Tu 


11 35 


o 12 


6 47 


142 


3 20 


5 16 


6 42 


1 33 


1 40 


5 17 


6 41 


1 27 


)21 


W 


11 5G 


5 10 


6 48 


2 16 


4 18 


5 14 


6 43 


2 10 


2 46 


5 15 


6 42 


2 5 


22 


Th 


12 16 


5 9 


6 49 


2 45 


5 37 


5 13 


6 44 


2 40 


3 49 


5 14 


6 43 


2 37 


J 23 


Fr 


12 36 


5 7 


6 50 


3 6 


7 10 


5 12 


6 45 


3 4 


4 46 


5 13 


6 44 


3 2 


21 


Sa 


12 56 


5 6 


6 51 


3 27 


8 31 


5 10 


6 46 


3 27 


5 37 


5 11 


6 45 


3 26 


125 


C 


13 15 


5 4 


6 52 


3 47 


9 30 


5 9 


6 47 


3 48 


6 21 


5 10 


6 46 


3 48 


26 


M 


V J > 35 


5 3 


651 


4 6 10 15 


5 7 


6 48 


4 10 


7 3 


5 9 


6 47 


4 12 


?27 


Tu 


13 54 


5 1 


6 55 


4 26 10 55 


5 6 


6 49 


4 33 


7 42 


5 7 


6 48 


4 36 


(28 


W 


14 13 


5 


6 56 


rises 11 29 


5 5 


6 40 


rises 


8 16 


5 6 


6 49 


rises 


29 


Th 


14 31 


4 58 


6 57 


9 lev 4 


5 3 


6 51 


8 53 


9 


5 5 


6 50 


8 47 


30 


Fr 


14 50 


4 57 


6 58 


10 


6 


36 


5 


2 


6 52 


9 55 


9 40 


5 


4 


6 51 


9 48 



Sewing in New York. — " I am informed from one source, that based on a, 
calculation some two years ago, the number of those who live by sewing in; 
New York, exceeds 15,000. Another who has good means of information 1 
tells me there are 40,000 earning fifteen shillings ($1,87)^) per week andi 
paying twelve shillings ($1,50) for board, making shirts at 4 cents." — E. II. < 
Chojrin, Moral Aspects of City Life. 

The first " pilgrim" who stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock, is said by 
i tradition to have been a young girl named Mary Chilton. 



5th Month. 



MAY, 1858, 



31 Days.! 



MOON'S PHASES. 



Last Quarter. . 
New Moon . . . 
First Quarter . 
Full Moon . . . . 



BOSTON. 


h. m. 




1 56 


mo. 


3 4 


mo. 


5 36 


ev. 


1 21 


ev. 



PHILADELPH. 



h. m. 

1 39 mo. 

2 47 mo. 
5 19 ev. 
1 4 ev. 



BALTIMORE. 



1 33 mo. 

2 41 mo. 
5 13 ev. 

58 ev. 



CHARLESTON. 


h. m. 




1 21 


mo. 


2 29 


mo. 


5 1 


ev. 


46 


ev. 



Sun on Merid. 
or noon mark. 

d. ! h. m. s. 

1,11 56 55 

9 11 56 13 

17 11 56 

25 11 56 37 i 



1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 

ho 

12 
13 
14 
J15 
16 
17 
18 
lit 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
31 



■a 


5 




B S T 1\ 








ROCHESTER 


is 


o 


DETROIT 


O 




M I L W A U K I E 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


H. W. 


p 




rises 

H M 


sets. 

H M 


rises. 

H M 


Bost'n 


H M 


Sa 


15 8 


4 56 


7 


11 1 


1 8 


€ 


15 26 


4 54 


7 1 


1150 


1 41 


M 


15 44 


4 53 


7 2 


morn 


2 14 


Tu 


16 1 


4 52 


7 3 


30 


2 50 


W 


16 18 


4 50 


7 4 


1 3 


3 33 


Th 


16 35 


4 49 


7 5 


129 


4 25 


Fr 


16 52 


4 48 


7 6 


1 55 


5 36 


Sa 


17 8 


4 47 


7 7 


2 15 


6 56 


C 


17 25 


4 46 


7 8 


2 36 


8 5 


M 


17 40 


4 44 


7 9 


2 57 


9 2 


Tu 


17 56 


4 43 


7 10 


3 21 


9 28 


W 


18 11 


4 42 


7 11 


3 48 


10 31 


Th 


18 26 


4 41 


7 12 


sets 


11 16 


Fr 


18 41 


4 40 


7 13 


9 36 


11 58 


Sa 


18 55 


4 39 


7 14 


10 44 


morn 


€ 


19 9 


4 3S 


7 15 


1136 


45 


M 


19 22 


4 37 


7 16 


morn 


1 31 


Tu 


19 36 


4 36 


7 17 


16 


2 24 


W 


19 49 


4 35 


7 18 


47 


3 18 


Th 


20 1 


4 34 


7 19 


1 11 


4 20 


Fr 


20 14 


4 33 


7 20 


1 31 


5 28 


Sa 


20 26 


4 32 


7 21 


1 53 


6 43 


C 


20 37 


4 32 


7 22 


2 12 


7 45 


M 


20 49 


4 31 


7 23 


2 33 


8 46 


Tu 


20 59 


4 30 


7 23 


2 54 


9 37 


W 


21 10 


|4 30 


7 24 


8 21 


10 21 


Th 


21 20 


4 29 


7 25 


rises 


11 2 


Fr 


21 30 


4 28 


7 26 


8 54 


11 40 


Sa 


21 39 


4 28 


7 27 


9 45 


ev 15 


C 


21 48 


4 27 


7 28 


10 28 


51 


M 


21 57 


4 26 


7 2!) 


11 3 


1 23 



N E W - Y O R K 
PHILADELPHIA 

PITTSBURGH 
INDIANAPOLIS 



Sun Sun Moon i B..W. 
rises sets, rises. IN. Y. 



H M 

5 

4 59 
4 58 
4 57 
4 56 
4 55 
4 54 
4 53 
4 52 
4 51 
4 50 
4 49 
4 48 
4 47 
4 46 
4 45 
4 44 
4 44 
4 43 
4 42 
4 41 
4 41 
4 40 
4 39 
4 38 
4 38 
4 37 
4 36 
4 36 
4 35 
4 35 



H M 

6 53 

6 54 
6 55 
6 56 
6 57 
6 58 

6 59 

7 
7 1 
7 2 



H M 

10 50 

11 39 
morn 

20 

55 

1 24 

1 50 

2 13 
2 37 

2 59 

3 26 
3 55 
sets 
9 26 

10 34 

11 27 
morn 

10 

42 

1 9 

1 33 
154 

2 16 

2 38 

3 1 
3 29 

rises 

8 44 

9 35 
10 19 
10 55 



H M 

10 22 

11 6 
11 56 
ev 47 

1 39 

2 34 

3 26 

4 21 

5 11 

6 4 

6 54 

7 42 

8 34 

9 32 
10 27 
1124 
morn 

25 

1 24 

2 20 

3 15 

4 7 

4 56 

5 44 

6 29 

7 13 

7 51 

8 35 

9 22 
10 5 
10 45 



BALTIMORE 

CINCINNATI 

ST. LOUIS 

S. FRANCISCO 



Sun Sun Moon 
rises sets, rises. 



H J 

5 21 
5 l! 
5 
4 59| 
4 58 1 
4 57' 
4 56 
4 55 
4 54 
4 53 
4 52 
4 51 
4 50 
4 49 
4 48 
4 47 
4 46 
4 45 
4 45 
4 44 
4 43 
4 42 
4 42 
4 41 
4 40 
4 40 
4 39 
4 38 
4 38 
4 37 
4 37 



6 52 TO 43 
6 53 11 32 
6 54 morn 



6 55 
6 56 

6 57 



14 

50' 



20 ; 

47 
11 

36; 


3 28 
3 59 
sets 
9 19 

10 27 

11 21 
morn 

5 

38< 

1 6 1 

1 32, 
154' 

2 181 

2 41 

3 5 
3 34! 

rises 
8 37 



16 i 9 28 i 
17J10 13; 
18 10 50. 



Female Inventors. — " Man, having excluded woman from all opportunity* 
of mechanical education, turns and reproaches her with having invented 
nothing. But one remarkable fact i3 overlooked. Society limits woman' 
sphere to the needle, the spindle and the basket ; and tradition reports that J 
she herself invented all three. If she has invented her tools as fast as she has; 
found opportuni'y to use them, can more be asked?" — T. W. Illggin&on. 

In the ancient Hindoo dramas, wives do not speak the same language 
with their husbands, but employ the dialect of slaves. 



6th Month. 








J 


TJNT 


B, 


1 


[§& 


3. 








30 D 


AYS. 

Merid. 
mark. 


MOON'S PHASES. 


BOSTON. 


PHILADELPH. 


BAXTIMOEB. 


CI 

h 


IAELESTON. 


Sun on 
or noon 


d. 


h. m. 


h. m. 


h. m. 


. m. 


d. h. m. s. 


Last Quarter. . 


4 


3 37 ev. 


3 20 ev. 


3 14 ev. 


3 2 ev. 


1 11 57 29 


New Moon . . . 


11 


L0 2 mo. 


9 45 mo. 


9 39 mo. 


9 27 mo. 


9 11 58 52 


First Quarter . 


18 


3 30 mo. 


3 13 mo. 


3 7 mo. 


2 55 mo. 


17 12 32 


Full Moon 26 


4 29 mo. 


4 12 mo. 


4 6 mo. 


3 54 mo. 


25 12 2 15 


g M 


5zi 


BOSTON 


NEW-YOEK 


BALTIMORE 


§ 3 




ROCHESTER 


PHILADELPHIA 


CINCINNATI 


s £ 


.2 


DETROIT 


PITTSBURGH 


ST. LOUIS 


o c 


r3 


i 


MILWAUKIE 


INDIANAPOLIS 


S. FRANCISCO 


un 


Sun 


Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


O fi 


CO 


rises 

H M 


sets. 


rises. 


Bost'n 


rises 

H M 


sets. 


rises. 


N. Y. 


rises 

H M 


sets. 

H M 


rises. 


a « 


H M 


H M 


H M 


H M 


H M 


H M 


H M 


lTu 


22 5 


4 26 


7 30 


11 33 


1 58 


431 


7 20 


11 26 


11 30 


4 36 


7 19 


11 22 


2 W 


22 13 


4 25 


7 30 


1156 


2 36 


4 34 


7 21 


1152 


evl6 


4 36 


7 19 


1149 


3Th 


22 21 


4 25 


7 31 


morn 


3 20 


4 34 


7 22 


morn 


1 2 


4 36 


7 20 


morn 


4Fr 


22 28 


4 25 


7 32 


18 


4 6 


4 33 


7 22 


16 


1 51 


4 35 


7 21 


14 


5Sa 


22 35 


4 24 


7 32 


39 


4 59 


4 33 


7 23 


38 


2 40 


4 35 


7 21 


37 


6C 


22 41 


4 24 


7 33 


1 


6 2 


4 33 


7 24 


1 1 


3 36 


4 35 


7 22 


1 2 


7M 


22 47 


4 24 


7 34 


1 21 


7 8 


4 33 


7 24 


1 25 


4 30 


4 34 


7 23 


127 


8Tu 


22 53 


4 23 


7 34 


1 45 


8 5 


4 32 


7 25 


1 51 


5 30 


4 34 


7 23 


154 


9 W 


22 58 


4 23 


7 35 


2 17 


9 3 


4 32 


7 25 


2 21- 


6 30 


4 34 


7 24 


2 28 


10 Th 


23 2 


4 23 


7 36 


2 55 


9 59 


4 32 


7 26 


3 5 


7 28 


4 34 


7 24 


3 11 


11 Fr 


23 7 


4 22 


7 36 


sets 


10 53 


4 32 


7 26 


sets 


8 24 


4 34 


7 25 


sets 


12 Sa 


23 11 


4 22 


7 37 


9 26 


1144 


4 32 


7 27 


9 16 


9 26 


4 34 


7 25 


9 10 


13 c 


23 14 


4 22 


7 37 


10 12 


morn 


4 32 


7 27 


10 4 


10 21 


4 31 


7 26 


9 59 


14 M 


23 17 


4 22 


7 38 


10 44 


36 


4 32 


7 28 


10 39 


11 10 


4 34 


7 26 


10 35 


15 Tu 


23 20 


4 22 


7 38 


11 14 


1 28 


4 32 


7 28 


11 10 


morn 


4 34 


7 26 


11 7 


16 W 


23 22 


4 22 


7 38 


11 37 


2 19 


4 32 


7 29 


11 36 


3 


4 34 


7 27 


11 34 


17 Th 


23 24 


4 22 


7 39 


11 58 


3 10 


4 32 


7 29 


11 58 


53 


4 34 


7 27 


1158 


18 Fr 


23 26 


4 22 


7 39 


morn 


4 3 


4 32 


7 30 


morn 


1 42 


4 31 


7 27 


morn 


19 Sa 


23 27 


4 22 


7 39 


17 


4 57 


4 32 


7 30 


19 


2 32 


4 34 


7 28 


20 


20 C 


23 27 


1: 23 


7 40 


37 


5 55 


4 33 


7 30 


42 


3 22 


4 34 


7 28 


44 


21 M 


23 27 


4 23 


7 40 


58 


6 55 


|4 33 


7 30 


1 4 


4 15 


4 34 


7 28 


1 7 


22 Tu 


23 27 


4 23 


7 40 


1 25 


7 53 


14 33 


7 31 


1 32 


5 4 


4 35 


7 28 


1 36 


23 W 


23 27 


4 23 


7 40 


1 55 


8 55 


4 33 


7 31 


2 4 


5 57 


4 35 


7 29 


2 9 


24 Th 


23 26 


4 24 


7 40 


2 29 


9 53 


'4 33 


7 31 


2 40 


6 47 


4 35 


7 29 


2 46 


25 Fr 


23 24 


4 21 


7 41 


3 15 


10 38 


J4 33 


7 31 


3 26 


7 34 


4 35 


7 29 


3 33 


2GSa 


23 22 


4 24 


7 41 


rises 


11 21 


1434 


7 31 


rises 


8 14 


4 36 


7 29 


rises 


27 C 


23 20 


4 25 


7 41 


9 7 


ev 1 


431 


7 31 


8 58 


9 3 


4 36 


7 29 


8 52 


28 M 


23 IS 


4 25 


7 40 


9 36 


36 


431 


7 31 


9 30 


9 45 


4 36 


7 29 


9 25 


29 Tu 


23 15 


4 25 


7 40 


10 1 


1 12 


|4 34 


7 31 


9 56 


10 22 


4 37 


7 29 


!) 52 


SOW 


23 11 


4 26 


7 40 


10 23 


1 47 


4 35 


7 31 


10 20 


11 2 


4 37 


7 29 


10 18 



A correspondent of the London Spectator suggests : — " The employment of 
women as clerks at railway stations would not be an unprecedented innovation ; 
they not unfrequently fill that position abroad ; and I can recall at least 
one instance, when, at a principal station in France, a female clerk dis- 
played under difficult circumstances an amount of zeal and intelligence 
which showed her to be admirably suited to her office — ' the right woman in 
the right place/ 

The word courage is in the Spanish and Fortuguesc languages, a feminine 
noun. 



7th Month. JU&F, 1858. 31 Days. 


] MOON'S PHASES. 


BOSTON. 1 

h. m. 


>HTLADELPH. 


BALTIMORE. < 


CHARLESTON. Sun 0n Merid 

or noon mark 


\ d - 


ti. m. 


j. m. 


h. m. d. h. m. s. 


S Last Quarter . 4, 2 mo. 


1 43 mo. 


1 37 mo. 


1 25 mo. 


1 12 3 28 


? New Moon ... 10 4 40 ev. 


4 23 ev. 


4 17 ev. 


4 5 ev. 


9 12 4 51 


s First Quarter . 17 3 55 ev. 


3 38 ev. 


3 32 ev. 


3 20 ev. 17 12 5 49 


^Full Moon ... 25; 7 19 ev. 


7 2 ev. 


6 56 ev. 


6 44 ev. 2 


5 12 6 12. 


1 5 


A 


ti 


BOSTON 


NEW-YORK 


BALTI MORE 


) c 






ROCHESTER 


PHILADELPHIA 


CINCINNATI 


) ^ 


£ 




DETROIT 


PITTSBURGH 


ST. LOUIS 


? ° 

\ c3 


o 
>> 

c3 


to 


M I L W A U K I E 


INDIANAPOLIS 


S. FRANCISCO 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


j Q 


ft 


m 


rises 

H M 


sets. 

H M 


rises. 

H M 


Eost'n 

H M 


rises 

11 M 


sets. 

H H 


rises. 


N. Y. 


rises 

H M 


sets. 

H M 


rises. 




o . 


H M 


H M 


H M 


J 1 


Th 


23 7 


4 26 


7 40 


10 43 


2 21 


4 35 


7 31 


10 42 


1142 


4 38 


7 29 


10 41 


2 


Fr 


23 3 


427 


7 40 


11 3 


3 


4 36 


7 30 


11 4 


ev 25 


4 38 


7 29 


11 4 


3 


Sa 


22 58 


4 27 


7 40 


11 22 


3 40 


4 36 


7 30 


.11 26 


1 8 


4 39 


7 29 


1128 


4 


C 


22 53 


4 28 


7 40 


11 47 


4 26 


4 37 


7 30 


11 52 


1 59 


4 39 


7 28 


11 55 


) 5 


M 


22 is 


4 29 


7 39 


morn 


5 15 


4 37 


7 30 


morn 


2 57 


4 40 


7 28 


morn 


? 6 


Tu 


22 42 


4 29 


7 39 


14 


6 17 


4 38 


7 30 


20 


3 57 


4 41 


7 28 


24 


7 


W 


22 36 


4 30 


7 39 


46 


7 20 


4 39 


7 30 


55 


5 5 


4 41 


7 28 


1 


8 


Th 


22 29 


4 31 


7 38 


1 32 


8 31 


4 40 


7 29 


1 42 


6 16 


4 42 


7 27 


1 48 


9 


Fr 


42 22 


4 31 


7 38 


2 28 


9 39 


4 40 


7 29 


2 40 


7 21 


4 42 


7 27 


2 47 


10 


Sa 


22 14 


4 32 


7 38 


3 40 


10 41 


4 41 


7 29 


3 51 


8 16 


4 43 


7 27 


3 58 


11 


C 


22 7| 


4 33 


7 37 


sets 


11 37 


4 42 


7 28 


sets 


9 15 


4 44 


7 26 


sets 


12 


M 


2158: 


4 33 


7 37 


9 13 


morn 


4 43 


7 28 


9 9 


10 3 


4 44 


7 26 


9 6 


13 


Tu 


21 50 


4 31 


7 36 


9 38 


31 


4 44 


7 27 


9 36 


10 46 


4 45 


7 26 


9 34 


14 


\V 


21 41 


4 35 


7 36 


10 


1 20 


4 44 


7 27 


10 


11 29 


4 46 


7 25 


9 59 


15 


Th 


?1 31 


4 36 


( 35 


10 21 


2 7 


4 45 


7 26 


10 23 


morn 


4 46 


7 24 


10 24 


16 


Fr 


21 22 


4 37 


7 34 


10 42 


2 52 


146 


7 25 


10 46 


14 


4 47 


7 24 


10 48 


17 


Sa 


21 12 


137 


7 31 


11 2 


3 36 


4 46 


7 25 


11 8 


59 


4 48 


7 23 


11 11 


18 


C 


21 1 


4 38 


7 33 


11 28 


4 18 


4 47 


7 24 


11 35 


1 47 


4 49 


7 23 


11 39 


19 


M 


20 51 


4 39 


7 32 


11 55 


5 


4 48 


7 23 


morn 


2 39 


4 49 


7 22 


morn 


20 


Tu 


20 39 


4 10 


7 31 


morn 


5 54 


4 49 


7 22 


4 


3 37 


4 50 


7 21 


9 


21 


W 


20 28 


4 41 


7 30 


2!) 


7 


4 50 


7 22 


39 


4 31 


4 51 


7 20 


45 


22 


Th 


20 16 


4 42 


7 30 


1 10 


8 12 


4 50 


7 21 


1 21 


5 30 


4 52 


7 19 


1 28 


23 


Fr 


20 4 


4 43 


7 29 


2 1 


9 25 


4 51 


7 20 


2 12 


6 25 


4 52 


7 18 


2 19 


24 


Sa 


19 51 


4 44 


7 28 


2 58 


10 20 


4 52 


7 19 


3 8 


7 14 


4 53 


7 18 


3 15 


25 


C 


19 39 


4 45 


7 27 


rises 


11 7 


4 53 


7 19 


rises 


7 56 


4 54 


7 17 


rises 


26 


M 


19 25 


4 46 


7 26 


8 4 


11 45 


4 54 


7 18 


7 59 


8 39 


4 55 


7 16 


7 55 


27 


Tu 


19 12 


4 47 


7 25 


8 29 


ev 21 


4 55 


7 17 


8 25 


9 21 


4 56 


7 15 


8 22 


28 


VV 


18 58 


4 4S 


7 24 


8 48 


56 


4 56 


7 16 


8 47 


9 56 


4 57 


7 14 


8 45 


29 


Th 


18 41 


4 49 


7 23 


9 8 


1 27 


4 56 


7 16 


9 9 


10 32 


4 57 


7 13 


9 9 


30 


Fr 


18 30 


4 50 


7 22 


9 28 


1 58 


4 57 


7 15 


9 30 


11 9 


4 58 


7 12 


9 31 


31 


Sa| 


18 15| 


4 51 


7 21 


9 49 


2 33 


4 58 


7 14 


9 54|ll 50 


4 59 


7 11 


9 56 


1 The St. Louis Republican mentions that there is one feature about the 


\ steamer Illinois Belle, of peculiar attractiveness — a lady clerk : "Look at 


iher bills of lading, and ' Mary J. Patterson, clerk/ will be seen traced in a 


1 delicate and very neat style of chirography. A lady clerk on a western 


! steamer ! It speaks strongly of our moral progress." < 


George Borrow, in his singular narrative, " The Romany Rye," states j 


; that the sale of a wife with a halter round her neck, is still a legal trans- { 


action in England. It must be done in the cattle market, as if she were a t 


1 mare, " all women being considered as mares by old English law, and indeed ) 


call 


ea rr 


.ares in 


certa 


in cou 


nties w 


here (je 


nuine 


old E 


nglish 


is still 


preset 


ved." 





8th Month. 



AUGUST, 1858, 



31 Days J 



MOON'S PHASES.' bostox. 



Last Quarter 
New Moon . . 
First Quarter 
Full Moon . . 
Last Quarter 



h. m. 

9 37 mo. 

10 mo. 

6 58 mo. 
24 9 28 mo. 
SI 3 32 ev. 



16 



PHILADELPH. 


h. m. 




9 20 


mo. 


11 53 


ev. 


6 41 


mo. 


9 11 


mo. 


3 15 


ev. 



BALTIMOBE. 


h. m. 




§ 14 


mo. 


11 47 


ev. 


6 35 


mo. 


9 5 


mo. 


3 9 


ev. 



CHARLESTON. 



h. m. 

9 2 mo. 
11 35 ev. 

6 23 mo. 

8 53 mo. 

2 57 ev. 



Sun on Merid. 
or noon mark. 



s. 

1 

14 

50 : 

53 



S.£ 



l'C 
2 M 
3iTu 
4 W 
5|Th 

6 Fr 

7 Sa 
8,C 
9 M 

10 Tu 

11 W 

12 Th 

13 Fr 

14 Sa 

15 C 

16 H 

17 Tu 

18 W 

19 Th 

20 Fr 
21,Sa 

22 C 

23 M 

24 Tu 

25 W 

26 Th 

27 Fr 

28 Sa 

29 C 

30 M 
31jTu 



18 
17 45 
17 29 
17 13 
16 57 
16 41 
16 24 
16 7 
15 50 
15 32 
15 15 
14 57 
14 38 
14 20 
14 1 
13 52 
13 23 
13 4 
12 44 
12 25 
12 5 
1145 
1124 
11 4 
10 43 
10 22 
10 1 
9 40 
9 19 
8 57 
8 36 



BOSTON. 
ROC HESTER 

DETROIT 
M.IL WAUKIE 

Sun Sun Moon H.W.~ 
rises sets, rises. Bost'n 



4 52 
4 53 
4 54 
4 55 
4 56 
4 57 
4 58 

4 59 

5 
5 1 



5 
5 

o 

5 

5 

5 7 
5 8 
5 9 
5 11 
5 12 
513 
5 14 
5 15 
5 16 
5 17 
5 18 
5]9 
5 20 
5 21 
5 22 
23 



HEM 

20 10 14 
18 10 45 
17 11 22 
mern 

13 

1 17 

2 32 

3 54 
sets 
8 2 
8 23 

8 42 

9 4 
9 29 
9 54 

10 26 



5811 



1153 

mern 

48 

1 49 

2 54 
4 

rises 
7 14 
7 33 

7 55 

8 19 

8 47 

9 21 
10 7 



3 9 

3 50 

4 35 

5 30 

6 48 
814 
9 36 

10 40 

11 33 
morn 

22 

1 4 

1 43 

2 21 

2 56 

3 33 

4 12 
4 58 

6 4 

7 28 

8 53 ; 
10 l| 

10 47 

11 25 
11 59 
ev29 

1 1 
134 

2 5 

2 40 

3 18 



NEW-YORK 
PHILADELPHIA 

PITTSBURGH 
INDIANAPOLIS 



Sun Sua Moon H.W. 
rises sets, rises. Philad 



4 59 


1 
1 

2 



S 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

5 12 

5 13 

5 14 

5 15 

16 

5 17 

5 18 

5 19 

5 19 

5 20 

5 21 

5 22 

5 23 

5 24 

5 25 

5 26 

5 27 



H M 

10 21 
10 53 
1132 
morn 
24 
128 

2 43 
4 2 
sets 
8 
8 24 

8 46 

9 9 
9 36 

10 3 
L0 37 

11 17 
morn 

4 
59 
159 

3 2 

4 7 
rises 

7 14 
7 35 

7 58 

8 25 

8 54 

9 31 
10 18 



6 56 

7 45 

8 39 

9 38 

10 42 

11 48 

52 

1 52 

2 33 

3 14 

4 1 

4 46 

5 30 

6 16 

7 2 

7 50 

8 40 

9 31 

10 23 

11 13 
2 
49 
134 
2 8 

2 42 

3 25 

4 8 

4 54 

5 43 

6 35 

7 31 



BALTIMORE 

C INC INN at: 

ST. LOUIS 

S. FRANCISCO 



Sun Sun | Moon 
rises sets, rises. 



5 

5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 

5 7 
5 8 
5 9 
5 10 
5 11 
5 12 
5 13 

14 
5 15 
5 16 
5 16 
5 17 
5 18 
5 19 
5 20 
5 21 
5 22 
5 23 
5 24 
5 25 
5 25 

26 
5 27 



10 25 
10 58 
1139 
morn 
31 
134 
2 48 
4 7 
sets 

7 59 

8 24 

8 48 

9 12 
9 40 

10 8 

10 43 

11 24 
morn 

11 

1 6 

2 5 

3 7 

4 11 
rises 

7 13 

7 36 

8 0. 
8 28 

8 58 

9 36 
10 24 



Addison, in the Spectator, refers to a French author, who mentions that the 
ladies of the court of France, in his time, thought it ill breeding and a kind 
of female pedantry, to pronounce a hard word right, for which reason they 
took frequent occasion to use hard words, that they might show a politeness 
in murdering them. The author further adds, that a lady of some quality 
at court, having accidentally made use of a hard word in a proper place, and 
pronounced it right, the whole assembly was out of countenance for her. 



9th Month. 



SEPTEMBER, 1858, 



30 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 



New Moon . . . 
First Quarter . 

Full Moon 

Last Quarter. . 



h. m. 
9 31 mo, 
32 mo, 

22110 36 ev. 

29| 9 7 ev. 



PHILADELPH. 



h. m. 

9 14 mo. 

15 mo. 
10 19 ev. 

8 50 ev. 



BALTIMORE. 


h. m. 




9 8 


mo. 


9 


mo. 


10 13 


ev. 


8 44 


ev. 



CHARLESTON. ' 


h, m. 




8 56 


mo. 


11 57 


ev. 


10 1 


ev. 


8 32 


ev. 



Sun on MericL 
or noon mark. 

d. I h. m. s. 

1 11 59 50 

9 11 57 12 

17 11 54 24 ( 

25 11 51 37 



8 14 



BOSTON 
ROCHESTER 

DETROIT 
MILWAUKIE 



Sun Sun Moon H./W. 
rises Bets, rises. Bost'n 



52 
30 

8 
46 
23 

1 

38 

16 

4 53 

4 30 

4 7 
3 44 
3 21 
2 58 
2 35 
2 12 
1 48 
125 
1 2 
39 
N15 

5 8 
32 

55 

1 18 
142 

2 5 
2 29 
2 52 



H M 

5 24 

5 26 

5 27 

5 28 

5 29 

5 30 

5 31 

5 32 

5 33 

5 34 

5 35 

5 36 

5 37 

5 38 

5 39 

40 

41 

43 

44 

45 

U\ 

17 

48 

5 49 

5 50 

5 51 

5 52 

5 53 

5 54 

5 55 



II M 

6 35 
6 33 
6 31 
6 29 
6 28 
6 26 
6 24 
6 22 
6 21 
6 19 
6 17 
6 15 
6 14 
6 12 



5 58 
5 56 
5 54 
5 53 
5 51 
5 49 
5 47 
5 46 
5 44 



M 

11 4 
morn 
12 
1.31 
2 51 
4 8 
sets 
6 41 



9 45 
10 37 
1136 
morn 

40 

1 45 

2 51 

4 1 

5 7 
rises 

6 21 

6 49 

7 23 

8 5 
8 58 

10 03 

11 16 



H M 

4 5 

5 6 

6 36 

8 14 

9 24 

10 32 

11 23 
morn 

3 

38 

1 12 

1 46 

2 19 

2 51 

3 27 

4 13 

5 17 

6 50 

8 18 

9 33 
10 18 

10 55 

11 26 
11 59 
ev29 

1 3 
138 

2 15 

2 59 

3 50 



NEW-YORK 
PHILADELPHIA 

PIT-TSBURGH 
INDIANAPOLIS 



Sun Sun Moon H.W. 
rises sets, rises. N. Y. 



H M 

5 28 
5 29 
5 30 
5 31 
5 32 
5 34 
5 35 
5 36 
5 37 
5 38 
5 39 
5 39 
5 40 
5 41 
5 42 
5 43 
5 44 
5 45 
5 46 
5 47 
5 48 
5 49 
5 50 
5 51 
5 52 
5 53 
5 53 
5 54 
5 55 
5 56 



6 32 
6 30 
6 28 
6 27 
6 25 
6 24 
6 23 
6 21 
6 19 
6 18 
6 16 
6 14 



5 59 
5 58 
5 56 
5 55 
5 53 
5 51 
5 49 
5 48 
5 46 
5 44 



11 15 
morn 
23 
140 
2 58 
4 14 
sets 

6 47 

7 10 

7 36 
,8 3 

8 34 

9 12 
9 57 

10 49 

11 46 
morn 

50 

1 53 

2 57 

4 4 

5 8 
rises 

6 27 

6 56 

7 32 

8 15 

9 10 

10 14 

11 27 



2 24 

3 41 

4 54 
6 1 

6 57 

7 42 

8 23 

9 5 
9 44 

10 21 

11 1 
1146 
morn 

36 
131 

2 32 

3 33 

4 30 

5 27 

6 16 

6 59 

7 40 

8 13 

8 55 

9 36 

10 20 

11 8 
ev. 6 

1 12 

2 23 



BALTIMORE 

CINCINNATI 

ST. LOUIS 

S. FRANCISCO 



Sun Sun Moon 
rises sets, rises. 



H M 

5 28 
5 29 
5 30 
5 31 
5 32 
5 33 
5 34 
5 35 
5 35 
5 36 
5 37 
5 38 
5 39 
5 40 
5 41 
5 42 
43 
44 
44 
45 
46 
5 47 
5 48 
5 49 
5 50 
5 51 
5 52 
5 53 
5 54 
5 55 



H M 

6 31 
6 29 
6 28 
6 26 
6 25 
6 23 
6 21 
6 20 
6 18 
6 17 
6 15 
6 14 
6 12 
6 10 
6 9 
6 7 
6 

6 4 
6 2 
6 1 
5 59 
5 58 
5 56 
5 54 
5 53 
5 51 
5 50 
5 48 
5 46 
5 45 



H 

11 22 
morn 

30 

1 46 

3 2 

4 16 
sets 

6 48' 

7 12 

7 39 

8 07 

8 39< 

9 18 
10 4 
10 56< 

7 111 52 

6 morn 

55 

157 

2 59' 

4 6! 

5 9' 
rises 

6 30; 

7 0' 

7 37 

8 21 

9 17 

10 21 

11 33 



Sale of a Wife at Worcester, England. — One of these immoral and ille- 
gal transactions was recently completed at Worcester. The agreement be- 
tween the fellow who sold, and the fellow who bought, is given in the Wor- 
cester Chronicle : 

" Thomas Middleton delivered up his wife, Mary Middleton, to Phillip 
Rostins, and sold her for one shilling and a quart of ale, and parted wholly 
and solely for life, not trouble one another for life. Witness, Signed Thomas , 
X Middleton. Witness, Mary Middleton, his wife, Witness, Phillip M Ros- 1 
tins. Witness, S. H. Stone, Crown Inn, Friar street. 



10th Month. 



OCTOBER, 1858, 



31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


BOSTON. 


PHILADELPH 


, d. 
New Moon ... 6 
First Quarter .14 
Full Moon, . . J 22 
Last Quarter. J 29 


h. m. 
9 23 ev. 
7 58 ev. 
10 35 mo. 
3 49 mo. 


h. m. 

9 6 ev. 

7 41 ev. 
10 18 mo. 

3 32 mo. 



BALTIMORE. 


h. m. 




9 


ev. 


7 35 


ev. 


10 12 


mo. 


3 26 


mo. 



CHARLESTON. 


h. m. 




8 48 


ev. 


7 23 


ev. 


10 


mo. 


3 14 


mo. 



Sun on Merid. 
or noon mark. 

d. h. m. s. 

1 11 49 38 

9 11 47 17 

17 11 45 25 

25 11 44 10 



■g 


j 




BOSTON 


NEW-YORK BALTIMORE 


a 


"3 




ROCHESTER 


PHILADELPHIA^ CINCINNATI^ 


2. 


P= 


"3 


DETROIT 


PITTSBURGH 


ST. LOUIS ) 


'o 


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>» 


6) 


MILWAUKIE 


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5 42 


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morn 


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5 55 


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2 


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3 39 


5 58 


5 40 


35 


6 37 


5 58 


5 41 


43 


4 40 


5 56 


5 42 


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5 39 


1 50 


8 17 


5 59 


5 39 


157 


5 39 


5 57 


5 40 


2 


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4 25 


6 


5 37 


3 6 


9 27 


6 


5 38 


3 9 


6 30 


5 58 


5 39 


311 


5 


Tu 


4 48 


6 1 


5 35 


4 19 


10 15 


6 1 


5 36 


4 20 


7 14 


5 59 


5 37 


4 21 


6 


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5 11 


6 2 


5 33 


5 28 


10 57 


6 2 


5 35 


5 27 


7 51 


6 


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sets 


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6 3 


5 33 


sets 


8 31 


6 1 


5 34 


sets c 


8 


Fr 


5 57 


6 4 


5 30 


5 51 


morn 


6 4 


5 32 


6 2 


9 12 


6 2 


5 32 


6 6 


9 


Sa 


6 20 


6 6 


5 28 


6 24 


8 


6 5 


5 30 


6 33 


9 53 


6 3 


5 31 


6 38 


10 


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6 43 


6 7 


5 27 


6 58 


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6 6 


5 28 


7 8 


10 35 


6 4 


5 29 


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11 


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7 6 


6 8 


5 25 


7 39 


115 


6 8 


5 27 


7 50 


11 18 


6 5 


5 28 


7 57; 


12 


Tu 


7 28 


6 9 


5 23 


8 27 


1 48 


6 9 


5 25 


8 39 


morn 


6 6 


5 26 


8 46^ 


13 


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7 51 


6 10 


5 22 


9 23 


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9 34 


9 


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5 20 


10 24 


3 


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5 22 


10 35 


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8 36 


6 13 


5 19 


11 30 


3 44 


6 12 


5 20 


11 38 


1 58 


6 9 


5 21 


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16 


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6 14 


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morn 


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6 13 


5 19 


morn 


2 55 


6 10 


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17 


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9 20 


6 15 


5 15 


35 


6 6 


6 14 


5 17 


42 


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6 11 


5 18 


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9 42 


6 16 


5 14 


1 42 


7 35 


6 15 


5 16 


147 


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6 12 


5 16 


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6 17 


5 12 


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5 14 


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5 15 


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6 20 


5 9 


5 8 


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6 18 


5 11 


5 7 


7 3 


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6 21 


5 8 


rises 


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6 19 


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rises 


7 45 


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11 29 


6 22 


5 6 


5 19 


11 23 


6 21 


5 8 


5 28 


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6 10 


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6 24 


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6 24 


5 3 


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11 4 


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5 6 


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27 


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6 27 


5 1 


9 7 


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6 25 


5 2 


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6 22 


5 5 


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10 25 


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29 


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morn 


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31 


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14 11 


6 32 


4 55 


55 


6 32 


6 29 


4 58 


59 


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men ! do not smile at us ; I would rather you would wear faces that cor- 
respond to your acts. I do not like to be mocked with the glorious truth, 
that the consent of the governed is necessary to all just government, and| 
then find that while the most vile, degraded, drunken man has a right to i 
give his vote, I have not. — Lucy Stone. 

i Female Architects. — " The wife of Edwin Von Steinbach materially as- 1 
isisted her husband in the erection of the famous Strasburg Cathedral, and 
! within its walls a sculptured stone represents the husband and wife as con- 
sulting together on the plan." — Vauz' Villas and Cottages. 



jlltli Month. NOVEMBER, 1858. 30 Days. 


(MOON'S PHASES. 


1 

BOSTON. • ] 

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PHILADELPH. 


BALTIMORE. 

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HARLESTON. ( Sun 0n Meri , d - 

or noon mark. 


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b. m. 


bv m. 


l. m. 


i. h. m. b. 


I New Moon. . .... 5 


4 ev. ! 


11 47 mo. 


11 41 mo. 


11 29 mo. 


1 11 43 42 


; First Quarter .'13 


3 59 ev. 


3 42 ev. 


3 36 ev. 


3 24 ev. 


9 11 43 59 


Full Moon 20 


9 41 ev. 


9 24 ev. 


9 18 ev. 


9 6 ev. 1 


L7 11 45 10 


jLast Quarter. .27 


51 ev. 


34 ev. 


28 ev. 


16 ev. 25|11 


47 13 
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MILWAUKIE 


INDIANAPOLIS 


S. FRANCISCO 


Sun 


iSun 


Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun Moon 


H.W. 


Sun 


Sun 


Moon- 


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H M 


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H M 


H M 


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1 


M 


14 30 


6 33 


4 54 


2 7 


7 56 


6 30 


4 57 


2 8 


5 7 


6 27 


5 


2 9 


2 


Tu 


14 50 


6 34 


4 53 


3 16 


9 1 


6 32 


4 56 


3 17 


5 55 


6 2S 


4 59 


3 17 


3 


W 


15 8 


6 36 


4 51 


4 2o 


9 49 


6 33 


4 55 


4 23 


6 41 


6 2S 


4 58 


4 21 


4 


Th 


15 27 


6 37 


4 50 


5 33 


10 32 


6 34 


4 54 


5 29 


7 23 


6 31 


4 57 


5 26 


J 5 


Fr 


15 45 


6 38 


4 49 


6 41 


11 9 


6 36 


4 53 


6 36 


8 2 


6 32 


4 56 


6 32 


6 


Sa 


16 3 


6 39 


4 48 


sets 


11 45 


6 37 


4 52 


sets 


8 45 


6 33 


4 55 


sets 


> 7 


C 


16 21 


6 41 


4 47 


5 33 


morn 


6 38 


4 51 


5 44 


9 25 


6 34 


4 54 


5 51 


I 8 


M 


16 39 


6 42 


4 45 


6 21 


19 


6 39 


4 50 


6 32 


10 13 


6 35 


4 53 


6 39 


9 


Tu 


16 56 


6 43 


4-44 


7 15 


52 


6 40 


4 49 


7 26 


10 56 


6 36 


4 52 


7 33 


10 


W 


17 13 


6 44 


4 43 


8 13 


127 


6 41 


4 48 


8 24 


1143 


6 37 


4 51 


8 30 


11 


Th 


17 30 


6 46 


4 42 


9 17 


2 1 


6 42 


4 48 


9 26 


morn 


6 38 


4 50 


9 31 


12 


Fr 


17 46 


6 47 


4 41 


10 22 


2^38 


6 43 


4 47 


10 28 


32 


6 39 


4 49 


10 32 


13 


Sa 


18 2 


6 48 


4 40 


11 26 


3 19 


6 44 


4 46 11 32 


1 22 


6 40 


4 48 


11 35 


14 


C 


18 18 


6 49 


4 39 


morn 


4 11 


6 45 


4 45 morn 


2 11 


6 41 


4 48 


morn 


15 


M 


18 33 


6 51 


4 39 


31 


5 14 


6 46 


4 44 


35 


3 4 


6 43 


4 47 


37 


16 


Tu 


18 49 


6 52 


4 38 


1 37 


6 33 


6 48 


4 43 


138 


3 52 


6 44 


4 46 


1 39 


17 


W 


19 3 


6 53 


4 37 


2 451 7 41! 


6 49 


4 42 


2 44 


4 45 


6 45 


4 45 


2 43 


18 


Th 


19 18 


6 54 


4 36 


3 56 8 40 


6 50 


4 42 


35t 


5 36 


6 46 


4 45 


3 52 


19 


Fr 


19 32 


6 56 


4 35 


5 111 9 28 


6 51 


4 41 


5 8 


6 28 


6 47 


4 44 


5 4 


20 


Sa 


19 45 


6 57 


4 34 


6 33 10 11 


6 52 


4 40 


6 25 


7 20 


6 48 


4 43 


6 20 


21 


C 


19 59 


6 58 


4 34 


rises 10 55 


6 54 


4 39 


rises 


8 10 


6 49 


4 43 


rises 


22 


M 


20 12 


6 59 


4 33 


5 40 11 38 


6 55 


4 39 


5 51 


9 7 


6 50 


4 42 


5 58 


23 


Tu 


20 24 


7 


4 32 


6 52 ev 21 


6 56 


4 38 


7 2 


10 5 


6 51 


4 42 


7 8 


24 


W 


20 37 


7 2 


4 32 


8 11 1 8 


6 57 


4 37 


8 20 


10 59 


6 53 


4 41 


8 25 


25 


Th 


20 49 


7 3 


4 31 


9 31 158- 


6 58 


4 37 


9 37 


11 57 


6 54 


4 41 


9 41 


26 


Fr 


21 


7 4 


4 31 


10 46 2 51 


6 59 


4 36 


10 51 


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6 55 


4 40 


10 54 


27 


Sa 


21 11 


7 5 


4 30 


11 58 3 49 


7 


4 36 


morn 


1 48 


6 56 


4 40 


morn 


J 28 


C 


2122 


7 6 


4 30 


morn 4 52 


7 1 


4 35 


2 


2 43 


6 57 


4 40 


4 


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M 


21 32 


7 7 


4 30 


19 6 3 


7 2 


4 35 


110 


3 36 


6 58 


4 39 


1 10 


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2142 


7 8 


4 29 


2 17 7 12 

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7 3 


4 35 


2 15 


4 28 


6 59 


4 39 


2 13^ 


\ Since the passage of what is called the Married Woman's Act, in 1848, in 


) Pennsylvania, there have been brought, in the Court of Common Pleas, 1135 


> suits for divorce. A large majority of the cases are brought by the wives, 


I on the ground of cruel treatment, and desertion. 


" Women ruled all, and ministers of state 


Were at the doors of women forced to wait, 


— Women, who've oft as Sovereigns graced the land, 


But never governed well at second-hand." 


J Churchill's Satires, A. D. 1761. \ 



J 12th Month. 




DECEMBER, 


1838. 




31 Days. 


)MOOFS PHASES. 


BOSTON. 


p 


ElILADELPH. 


B 

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CHAELESTON. 


Sun on Merid. 
or noon mark. 


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d. 


h. m. 


. m. 


m. 


h. m. 


d. | h. m. s. 


<New Moon. . . 


. 5 


5 26 mo. 


5 9 mo. 


5 3 mo. 


4 51 mo. 


i 1 11 49 17 


; First Quarter 


.131 


45 mo. 


10 28 mo. 


10 22 mo. 


10 10 mo. 


! 9 11 52 38 


t Full Moon. . . 


.20 


8 22 mo. 


8 5 mo. 


7 59 mo. 


7 47 mo. 


17 11 56 26 


)Last Quarter. J27J 


54 mo. 


37 mo. 


31 mo. 


19 mo. 


,25 12 25 


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Sun 


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Sun 


Sun 


Moon 


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4 29 


3 23 


8 18 


7 3 


4 35 


3 2041 


7 


4 39 


3 18 


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Th 


22 1 


7 11 


4 29 


4 31 


9 14 


7 4 


4 35 


4 26 


1146 


7 1 


4 39 


4 22 


) 3 


Fr 


22 9 


7 12 


4 29 


5 38 


10 1 


7 5 


4 35 


5 31 


33 


7 2 


4 38 


5 25 


s 4 


Sa 


22 17 


7 13 


4 28 


6 44 


10 46 


7 6 


4 34 


6 35 


1 23 


7 2 


4 38 


6 29 


s ^ 


C 


22 25 


7 14 


4 28 


sets 


1126 


7 7 


4 34 


sets 


2 2 


7 3 


4 38 


-sets 


5 6 


M 


22 32 


7 15 


4 28 


5 7 


morn 


7 8 


4 34 


5 18 


2 42 


7 4 


4 38 


5 25 


S 7 


Tu 


22 39 


7 16 


4 28 


6 7 


3 


7 9 


4 34 


6 16 


3 33 


7 5 


4 38 


6 22 


> 8 


W 


22 46 


7 17 


4 28 


7 6 


39 


7 10 


4 34 


7 15 


4 22 


7 6 


4 38 


7 20 


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Th 


22 52 


7 17 


4 28 


8 10 


1 13 


7 11 


4 35 


8 18 


5 9 


7 7 


4 38 


8 23 


<10 


Fr 


22 57 


7 18 


4 28 


9 13 


1 49 


7 12 


4 35 


9 20 


5 53 


7 8 


4 38 


9 23 


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Sa 


23 2 


7 19 


4 28 10 18 


2 24 


7 13 


4 35 


10 22 


6 36 


7 9 


4 38 10 24, 


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23 "7 


7 20 


4 28 11 21 


3 3 


7 13 


4 35 


11 23 


7 18 


7 9 


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23 11! 


7 21 


4 28 morn 


3 45 


7 14 


4 35 


morn 


7 59 


7 10 


4 39 imorn ' 


14 


Tu 


23 15 


7 22 


4 29 


26 


4 29 


7 15 


4 36 


27 


8 42 


7 11 


4 39 


27 


15 


W 


23 18 


7 23 


4 29 


134 


5 26 


7 15 


4 36 


1 33 


9 28 


7 12 


4 39 


1 31 


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Th 


23 21 


7 23 


4 29 


2 46 


6 33 


7 16 


4 36 


2 42 


10 18 


7 12 


4 40 


2 39 


J 17 


Fr 


23 23| 


7 24 


4 29 


4 1 


7 36 


7 17 


4 36 


3 56 


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7 13 


4 40 


3 52 


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Sa 


23 25! 


7 24 


4 29 


5 21 


8 40 


7 17 


4 36 


5 14 


6 


7 14 


4 40 


5 8 


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23 26; 


7 25 


4 30 6 40 


9 36 


7 18 


4 37 


6 31 


1 22 


7 14 


4 41 


6 24 


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23 27 


7 25 


4 30 rises 


10 29 


7 19 


4 37 


rises 


2 81 


7 15 


4 41 


rises ( 


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Tu 


23 27 


I 26 


4 31 


5 45 


1120 


7 19 


4 38 


5 55 


2 54! 


7 15 


4 42 


6 1 


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W 


23 27 


7 26 


4 31 


7 8 


ev 16 


7 20 


4 38 


7 15 


4 0, 


7 16 


4 42 


7 20 


J 23 


Th 23 27 


7 27 


4 32 


8 27 


1 6 


7 20 


4 39 


8 33 


4 59| 


7 16 


4 43 


8 36 i 


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Fr 23 26 


7 27 


4 32 


9 46 


157 


7 21 


4 39 


9 50 


5 54 


7 17 


4 43 


9 52 


25 


Sa 23 24 


7 28 


4 33 10 59 


2 47 


7 21 


4 40 


11 


6 44! 


7 17 


4 44 


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7 28 


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7 21 


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morn 


7 30 


7 17 


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27 


M 23 20 


7 28 


434j 8 


4 25 


7 22 


4 41 


8 


8 14; 


7 18 


4 45 


7 


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7 29 


4 35 1 15 


5 18 


7 22 


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8 59| 


7 18 


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7 29 


4 36 


2 24 


6 16 


7 22 


4 43 


2 20 


9 44 


7 18 


4 46 


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Th |23 10 


7 29 


4 37 


3 31 


7 23 


7 22 


4 43 


3 25 


10 31 


7 19 


4 46 


3 20 


31 1 


Fr|23 6 


7 30 


4 37 


4 36 


8 31 


7 22J 


4 44 


4 28 


11 19 


7 19 


4 47 


4 22 



i Learn to Swim. — When the Steamer Alida, was sinking from her collision 
'with the Fashion, a Kentucky girl of seventeen was standing on the guard, 
[looking upon the confusion of the passengers, and occasionally turning and 
(looking anxiously toward the shore. A gallant young man stepped up to 
j her and offered to convey her safely to shore. " Thank you," replied the lady, 
i" you need not trouble yourself; I am only waiting for the crowd to get out * 
> of the way, when I can take care of myself." Soon the crowd cleared the 
! space, and the lady plunged into the water, and swam to the shore with > 
i ease, and without any apparent fear. ) 



PROSPECTUS OF THE 

WOMAN'S ADVOCATE, 

FOR 1857. 
A. E. McDOWELL, Editor, LYDIA J. PIEBSON, Cor. Editor. 

Again the Proprietor of the Advocate, would express her thanks for 
the liberal aid of those who have contributed, by their subscriptions, to 
sustain the paper through the second volume. Although sufficient for 
keeping it alive for the year, it has not been sufficient to remunerate for 
past sacrifices. Having faith in the justice of her cause, and the profes- 
sion of regard by so many already enlisted in her behalf, she confidently 
hopes that all her friends will increase their efforts in behalf of the enter- 
prise. Those who wish to sustain a genuine WOMAN'S MOVEMENT, 
should remember that this is the only Newspaper in the World, 

Owned, Edited, Published, and Printed by Women ! 
That Women have been actively employed in printing the paper for two 
years, and many others engaged as canvassing agents, all of whom are paid 
as high as men would be for the same labor. To the Editor and Proprie- 
tor it has been years of toil and anxiety, even beyond her expectation ; 
but the labor has been performed with the hope of doing good to others, 
and finally pushing the business to a successful point, when it will remu- 
nerate all concerned. With this hope we toil on, and enter the field for 
another year with renewed energy, and with a firm reliance on the many 
assurances of aid from friends in all parts of the country. 

Terms of Subscription. — For One Copy, one year, $2,00 ; for Five 
Copies, $8,00 ; for Ten Copies, $15,00. 

To Postmasters. — Postmasters throughout the country are requested 
to act as agents, and deduct the usual commission. 

EMPLOYMENT FOR LADIES. 

Any lady of good address and energetic habits, can make from five to twenty dollars a ( 
week, by canvassing for subscribers for the Advocate. We want such agents in every ' 
township and city in the United States and Canada. If any one wishes to enter upon a' 
lucrative employment, and will send a recommendation for honesty and ability, they will* 
have credentials forwarded to them to act as agents. • 

Address, ANNA E. McDOWELL, Editor and Proprietor, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CONCORD SCHOOL. 

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The School Year at this Institution, which is designed for both 
sexes, commences Sept. 2, 1857. 

The permanent Teachers conducting Recitations, are 
F. B. SANBORN, Teacher of Greek, Latin and Mathematics. 

CHAS. H. SANBORN, " Physiology, Chemistry and Botany. 

JOSEPH WALL, " French, Italian, Spanish and Drawing. 

MiSS SARAH E. SANBORN, General English Studies. 
Miss P. B. RIPLEY, " Music. 

The permanent Lecturers are 
R. W. EMERSON, English Literature and Intellectual Philosophy. 
Dr. REINHOLD SOLGER, Ilistory. 

For further particulars, address F. B. SANBOU1V. 

Concord, Mass.. Sept. 1857. 



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